East Berlin

noun

1. Berlin3

East Berlin

noun

1. (formerly) the part of Berlin under East German control

Example Sentences

On 29 March 1974, 38-year-old Kukuczka, a firefighter, entered the Polish embassy on East Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard with a briefcase.

From BBC

Erpenbeck, 57, was born and raised in East Berlin, which was part of East Germany until the country disappeared with German reunification in 1990.

From Seattle Times

Their novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986.

From BBC

But according to prosecutors, while working for the Stasi, he allegedly shot Czeslaw Kukuczka in the back from as he tried to cross from East Berlin to the West.

From BBC

In 1974 he left Poland, ostensibly to spend the weekend in East Berlin.

From BBC