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The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

Timeline of Events

1949

10.7.1949

The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

10.16.1949

The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.

1961

8.13.1961

The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.

1990

10.3.1990

Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the ''European Community'', which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.