German Democratic Republic

noun

1. (formerly) the official name of East Germany AbbreviationsGDRDDR

Example Sentences

It’s set in the dying days of the German Democratic Republic, leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

From Seattle Times

Their relationship comes to embody the German Democratic Republic's "crushed idealism" and eventual "dissolution of a whole political system".

From BBC

The country she knew, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, remains a crucial setting for most of her striking, precise fiction.

From New York Times

“Democratic” here means much the same thing as it did when “German Democratic Republic” signified a Communist dictatorship in East Germany, which was anything but a democratic workers’ paradise.

From Los Angeles Times

But it was the 1970s, and no such symbol of Jewish faith could be found where she lived in East Berlin, in the communist German Democratic Republic, or G.D.R.

From New York Times