East Germany

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East Germany

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  1. historical A former Communist country of Central Europe, existing between 1949 and 1990. Official name: German Democratic Republic. Capital: East Berlin. Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to
  2. since 1990 A geographic region of Germany, consisting of the states formerly part of the Cold War-era East Germany, also known as Eastern Germany.

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name former European country

EspañolAlemania Oriental
한국어동독 Dongdok
日本語東ドイツ Higashi Doitsu, 東独 Tōdoku
中文東德 /东德 Dōng Dé
हिन्दीपूर्वी जर्मनी pūrvī jarmanī
KiswahiliUjerumani Mashariki
PortuguêsAlemanha Oriental
FrançaisAllemagne de l'Est
DeutschOstdeutschland
ItalianoGermania Est
ΕλληνικάΑνατολική Γερμανία Anatolikí Germanía
RomânăGermania de Est
РусскийВосто́чная Герма́ния Vostóčnaja Germánija
Tiếng ViệtĐông Đức
العربيةأَلْمَانِيَا الشَّرْقِيَّة ʔalmāniyā š-šarqiyya
עבריתגֶּרְמַנְיָה הַמִּזְרָחִית germánya ha-mizrakhít

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@misc{east_germany_2026,
  title = {East Germany},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/east%20germany},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}