Like the flags of the Weimar Republic, West Germany, and present-day Germany, the flag of East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, showed the colours black, red and gold.The coat of arms, which, from 1959, was a hammer, compass and wreath of wheat, was located in the middle of the colour red.

German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.GEA's area was 994,996 km 2 (384,170 sq mi), which was nearly three times the area of present-day Germany and …

The East German uprising of 1953 (German: Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953 ) was an uprising that occurred in East Germany from 16 to 17 June 1953. It began with a strike action by construction workers in East Berlin on 16 June against work quotas during the Sovietization process in East Germany. Demonstrations in East Berlin turned into a widespread uprising …

Oct 07, 2019 · Germany was divided between 1945 and 1990. Exactly 70 years after the foundation of East Germany, and 30 years after the peaceful revolution that spelled its demise, that division remains palpable.

The East Germany national football team, recognized as Germany DR by FIFA, was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of East Germany, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany.. After German reunification in 1990, the Deutscher Fußball Verband der DDR (DFV, English: German Football Association of the GDR), and with …

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad).East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia …

East Berlin was the de facto capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945.The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin.From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall.The Western Allied powers did not recognize East Berlin as the …

Oct 15, 2022 · Part 1 Part 1 Transcript Growing to Understand Contemporary Germany—and Weep: Part I: Germany: East and West, Reunification, and the US Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Based on a speech delivered at the Property and Freedom Society 16th Annual Meeting, Bodrum, Turkey, Sep. 18, 2022, available at www.PropertyandFreedom.org) So the title of my speech …

Soviet Military Administration in Germany organised Censorship in East Germany in 1945. Its president was Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov. The list of banned books (Liste der auszusondernden Literatur) was published in 1946, 1947 and 1948. ... Like the print media, radio and television were also state-controlled. There were five [dubious – discuss ...

In 1977, one of East Germany's best sprinters, Renate Neufeld, fled to the West with the Bulgarian she later married. A year later she said that she had been told to take drugs supplied by coaches while training to represent East Germany in the 1980 Olympic Games. At 17, I joined the East Berlin Sports Institute. My speciality was the 80m hurdles.