East German

East Germany released Alan Van Norman, a Minnesota man arrested while trying to smuggle an East German family to the West.

Elements of at least three Soviet Armies and two complete East German and Czech Armies should be expected during the first critical days.

Neighbouring Bitterfeld, a hub of the East German chemical industry, was known as the "dirtiest city in Europe" .

It was here, at the Augustus Platz, that thousands gathered every Monday to put pressure on the East German government.

Within weeks the East German, Czech, Bulgarian, and Romanian Communist leaders were all deposed.

Likewise, the softer impact of the recent downturn is explained by the fact that east German companies play little role in world markets.

The laughable Trabant was a product of the East German Communist government's ideas about affordable personal transportation.

Easterners tell pollsters of their nostalgia for the old days and vote in large numbers for the successors to the East German communists.

Until I managed to get a look at files the East German secret police, the Stasi, had kept about me, I didn't know this.

Later, world leaders will symbolically walk across the first East German border crossing to open in 1989.

The broadest honey trap in intelligence history was probably the creation of the notorious East German spymaster, Markus Wolf.

German unification was not inevitable: outsiders, the new East German leadership and many West Germans wanted something else.

Two weeks earlier he had won the East German national championship with a personal best of 2. 30m.

Pyongyang's somber trams are old East German models, giving the city a Soviet feel two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Yet the family had no illusions about the restrictions and dangers of life in the East German police state.

The East German parliament building replaced the former Hohenzollern palace but that too was eventually demolished.

This naivety being conditioned from what I have seen of Chinese propaganda films and East German television.

Think of all those robotic East German sprinters , Romanian gymnasts and Chinese swimmers churned out by state-backed programmes.

The barrier was constructed by the East German authorities in 1961, in response to the growing numbers of citizens fleeing into West Berlin.

HIS father, a well-connected doctor in the east German town of Halle, had wanted young Georg Friedrich to become a lawyer.

The gradual withdrawing of state support, experts fear, could lay bare hitherto concealed flaws in the east German economy.

But he says the accepted view now is that it was to keep East German potential migrants in.

What power remained in East German government was in the hands of Hans Modrow, a reformist politician from Dresden.

Here, East German citizens are applauded by West Berliners as they cross at Checkpoint Charlie.

East German border guards stand on a section of the Berlin wall with the Brandenburg gate in the background on Nov. 11, 1989 in Berlin.

Two East German policemen were standing guard nearthe trail dividing Berlin.

Merkel spent what she describes as a contented youth in the rural East German town of Templin, about 60 miles northwest of Berlin.

The East German state, it is said, would even doctor the weather reports to make the population feel better.

A long row of East German Trabant cars passing through Checkpoint Charlie into West Berlin is greeted by enthusiastic West Berliners.

And East German citizens still shared with the Bulgarians the reputation of being the most quiescent people in the Soviet bloc.

The 3. 5 million East Germans who had left since the founding of the GDR in 1949 made up about 20% of the entire East German population.

The East German government later used it for storage, first for textiles, then for tropical fruits, such as bananas, oranges and lemons.

When the wall went up there were around 3, 000 East German students registered at the Free University.

The knocks against Ballack are that he is East German and that he's polite.

In the period immediately after the fall of the Wall, there were 246 doctors for every 100, 000 East German citizens.

The player now faces charges of murder, as many of the East German guards did in reality.

Easy to see from these photos, the shape looks more like the East German agents exaggerated costumes: Some wore fur coats;

I was born in 1949 in Uelzen in the state of Lower Saxony, about 16 kilometers from the East German border.

Each East German citizen received 100 marks from the West German state.

Similarly, in 1995 Germany's government took on east German housing and industrial debts worth about 6. 8% of GDP.

Were you unaware of the East German uprising of 1953, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Prague Spring of 1968?

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Markus Wolf, East German spymaster, died on November 9th, aged 83