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East Germany: see Germany Germany (jûr`mənē), Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est. pop. ..... Click the link for more information. . East Germany a former republic in N central Europe: established in 1949 and declared a sovereign state by the Soviet Union in 1954; Communist regime replaced by a multiparty democracy in 1989; reunited with West Germany in 1990 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It reversed those policies after reunification forced limited resources to be shared with East Germans, which resulted in higher taxes and, hence, less personal income for West Germans. For 40 years during the Cold War, the newspaper pointed out, German troops could have shot East Germans, Poles and Russians "even though around 20 million people were killed by Germans in the Soviet Union in World War II. Funder nonetheless managed to find tales of East Germans who resisted the regime in ways that, given the price they paid, can only be called heroic. |
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