The East German state feared collapse if it could not hold its most productive citizens.
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On her desk sits a portrait of Russia's Catherine the Great, another underestimated east German woman.
You could tell where she came from because of her awful East German perm.
The nostalgia wave has spawned scores of websites offering thousands of former East German products.
The East German secret police, the Stasi, spied on him, using his friends and contacts as informers.
Where are the East German Supreme Court justices, the 747 pilots, the soccer heroes and movie stars?
And one of those millions, in a small East German town, was a young girl named Angela.
To what extent has Bonn made other information about sensitive technology transfers available to East German authorities?
In 1992, former East German leader Erich Honecker arrived in Berlin to face manslaughter charges for deaths along the Berlin Wall.
TV, Alex and his West German friend Dennis shoot dummy East German newscasts.
Professor Werner Franke first became known when he helped uncover the systematic doping practices of the East German state.
In one ecstatic night, the East German regime's border guards did nothing as local protesters overwhelmed the dividing wall.
The East German experience suggests all such estimates will be far too low.
In 1962, Peter Fechter, 18, was shot by East German guards as he attempted to flee across the Berlin Wall.
The marketer-led agency selection process often reminds me of the East German judges in the Olympics, who scored at random.
During the days of communism, the former East German regime realised the value of the industry to its foreign-exchange coffers.
Now, many years on, the more interesting of his East German minders have refused to talk about what they did.
His latest film gives small roles to other newish faces including two east German actresses: Corinna Harfouch and Christiane Paul.
Last week, for instance, the state of Saxony moved against Bwin, an Austrian betting firm with a grandfathered East German licence.
It took over 18 years after unification for the East German rate to equal the, already extremely low, West German rate.
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"Tegel took us to those places we only could dream of before, " says Wolfgang Andrees, a 71-year-old former East German resident.
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Christiane (Katrin Sass), a saintly East German Communist believer, falls into a coma just before the Berlin Wall comes down, in 1989.
Two days later the first East German was killed attempting to flee.
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Here you can handle everyday memorabilia, sit in a classic Trabant and watch TV in a lovingly recreated East German sitting room.
His cabaret shows mocked the East German government and the secret police.
He was the last East German known killed because of the Wall.
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The final hero was Mikhail Gorbachev whose policies of perestroika and reform contributed to the unexpected collapse of the East German state.
Many once-proud national programs have fallen prey to it Bulgarian weightlifting, Hungarian saber fencing not to mention some not-so-proud programs like East German swimming.
One of West Germany's first orders of business after reunification was to shut down four East German reactors of this basic type.
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