West German

adjective

1. of or relating to the former republic of West Germany (now part of Germany) or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the former West Germany

Example Sentences

Stasi officers gave him an exit visa and some West German money and escorted him to Friedrichstrasse station, which was still served by trains from the western side of the city.

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By the late 1980s, numerous West German sporting figures, including discus thrower Alwin Wagner, external and sprinter Manfred Ommer,, external were openly linking Klumper, who died in 2019, with historic doping.

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The revelations on West German doping landed like a bombshell, with the reverberations travelling around the world.

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While they would take decades to emerge, West German sport had its own secrets.

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"From the 1970s onwards, East Germany began winning a lot of medals. West German politicians started worrying about it and spreading the message that West German athletes needed to win medals too," says Letizia Paoli, who chaired the 2009 committee investigating West German doping activity at the University of Freiburg.

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