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.
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.
In 1992, former East German leader Erich Honecker arrived in Berlin to face manslaughter charges for deaths along the Berlin Wall.
Professor Werner Franke first became known when he helped uncover the systematic doping practices of the East German state.
The East German experience suggests all such estimates will be far too low.
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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Here you can handle everyday memorabilia, sit in a classic Trabant and watch TV in a lovingly recreated East German sitting room.
He was the last East German known killed because of the Wall.
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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.
Prosecutors are investigating an organ donor scandal in the east German city of Leipzig in which doctors allegedly manipulated an organ waiting list.
The East German authorities initially bricked up the windows and doors of adjoining buildings, but later demolished such structures to clear the border area.
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In 20 years things could be different: the cultural life of this east German backwater may be as rich as that in the west.
Germany has granted the USSR the right to continue to station as many as 380, 000 Soviet troops on former East German territory through 1994.
Mr. Andrees, the ex-East German, snapped a photo of the locked terminal during Brandenburg's open days and recalled one of his first departures from Tegel.
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In 1945, the U.S. and Soviet armies met in the east German city of Torgau as World War II drew to a close in Europe.
But in 29 chapters, each narrated by a different character, he weaves together a spellbinding tale of life in an East German province in 1990.
The move to more liberal shop-opening hours started in the eastern state of Saxony, in part because east German women spend more time at work.
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They add that the legend of the so-called nachzehrer, or " shroud-eaters, " were apparently tightly confined to the East German region and not Italy.
Three years later the East German government took control of Lange.
Lange's victory saw him become the first driver to take both bobsleigh gold medals at a single Winter Olympics since East German Wolfgang Hoppe in 1984.
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Krieger is among an estimated 10, 000 East German athletes thought to have been given performance-enhancing drugs to help build their country into a sports powerhouse.
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