East Germany
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nation state
| East Germany link | |
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| File:East Germany 1956-1990.svg.png | |
| File:1920px-Flag of the German Democratic Republic.svg.png | |
| Capital city | Berlin |
| Location | Europe |
| Type | nation state |
| Subgroups | Stasi |
| Former country in Europe. | |
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, (GDR) is a former country that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Commonly described as a communist state in English usage, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state"[1].It consisted of territory that was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the end of World War II — the Soviet occupation zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.
References
- ↑ Patrick Major, Jonathan Osmond, The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany Under Ulbricht 1945–71, Manchester University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7190-6289-6
