East Germany

Proper noun

East Germany

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...2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine
   • In August 2021, Williams visited the Republic of Molossia, an 11.3-acre micronation in Nevada that declared independence from the United States of America in 1998, where he was given a personal tour by “His Excellency President Kevin Baugh.” He learned about the Republic of Molossia’s ongoing “war”...2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN
2. A geographic region of Germany, consisting of the states formerly part of the Cold War-era East Germany, also known as Eastern Germany.