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East Germany–Israel relations

This was bolstered by the National People's Army, which published a lengthy article in August 1982 likening Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people to the crimes of German Nazism in World War II and those of American imperialism against Vietnam.


1991 DFB-Supercup

Uniquely, because Germany had just been reunified, the competition featured four teams instead of the usual two: The previous season's Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal winners, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and SV Werder Bremen, respectively, were joined by their counterparts from the East.

Antje Zöllkau

Antje Zöllkau, née Kempe (born 22 June 1963 in Saalfeld, Thuringia) is a retired javelin thrower who represented East Germany.

Armin Lemme

Armin Lemme (born October 28, 1955 in Packebusch, Saxony-Anhalt) is a former track and field athlete from East Germany who competed in the men's discus throw event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Asbach-Sickenberg

As a result of the 1945 Wanfried agreement, formerly Hessian Asbach-Sickenberg became part of the Soviet occupation zone and the later German Democratic Republic.

Aubrey Pankey

Aubrey W. Pankey (Pittsburgh, 1905 - Teltow, East Germany death by automobile accident 1971) was an American baritone and noted Lieder singer in 1930s Germany.

Belgium–Israel relations

In February 2010, a plaque honoring King Albert I, husband of Elizabeth of Bavaria, was unveiled at Albert Square in Tel Aviv in the presence of the Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai and Ambassador Bénédicte Frankinet.

Brazil–Israel relations

From July 18 to July 25, Israel's President was the official guest of President Castello Branco.

Brothers Keepers

The idea for the project took root in the 1990s, and when a German of Mozambiquan origin, named Alberto Adriano, was brutally killed by neo-Nazis in Dessau (East Germany) in 2000, a group of musicians decided to organize and fight back.

Cant del Barça

The hymn was given its official debut on 27 November 1974 at the Camp Nou before a game between FC Barcelona and East Germany.

Cats Falck

The deaths remain unsolved but later reports claim that they were assassinated in a state-sponsored operation by agents from East Germany.

Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

DRG Class E 19

The locomotives were stationed at the Nuremberg depot and mainly used between Nuremberg on Frankenwald and Probstzella in the DDR, as well as between Nuremberg and Regensburg.

Ellen Streidt

Ellen Streidt, née Stropahl (born July 27, 1952 in Wittstock, Brandenburg) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Extraterritorial crossroad

By land, West Berlin could only be accessed by transit roads through the GDR

FIL European Luge Championships 2008

The tie for the bronze was the first in a Winter Olympic, world championship, or European championship event since they started timing luge in the 1/1000ths of a second following the tie between Italy and East Germany in the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Foreign Claims Settlement Commission

The FCSC and its predecessor agencies have successfully completed 43 claims programs to resolve claims against various countries including the Federal Republic of Germany, Iran, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, Cuba, China, East Germany, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Egypt, Panama, and Albania.

France–Israel relations

After France's liberation by allied forces, David Ben-Gurion was confident that Charles de Gaulle would assist him in the founding of a Jewish state.

After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Charles de Gaulle's government imposed an arms embargo on the region, mostly affecting Israel.

German Namibians

Today, English is the country's sole official language, but about 30,000 Namibians of German descent (around 2% of the country's overall population) and possibly 15,000 black Namibians (many of whom returned from East Germany after Namibian independence) still speak German or Namibian Black German, respectively.

Großes Bruch

After World War II the historical frontier between the former Halberstadt territory within the Prussian Province of Saxony (except for Hornburg and Roklum) in the south and the Brunswick lands (except for Hessen and Pabstorf) in the south along the Großes Bruch became the Inner German Border between West and East Germany.

Günter de Bruyn

From 1965 to 1978, he was a member of the Zentralvorstandes des Schriftstellerverbandes der DDR (Central Executive Committee of the Literary Association of East Germany); he was a member of the presidency of the PEN Centre of East Germany from 1974 to 1982.

Heinz Dürr

Dürr was chairman of the board of AEG from 1980 to 1990, and from 1991 he served as executive board chairman of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn, Germany's state-owned railways.

Helga Seidler

Helga Seidler (née Fischer born August 5, 1949 in Oberneuschönberg) is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event.

Hirokazu Yagi

His best known finish was a Silver Medal in the Individual Normal Hill at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, (Tied with Manfred Deckert of East Germany).

Ibrahim Böhme

Ibrahim Böhme (November 18, 1944, Bad Dürrenberg, Province of Saxony – November 22, 1999) was a politician for a short period of time after the collapse of the communist regime in the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany.

Klaus-Jürgen Grünke

Klaus-Jürgen Grünke (born March 30, 1951 in Bad Lauchstädt, Saxony-Anhalt) is a retired track cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft

The German expression Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (English: Agricultural Production Cooperative), or — more commonly — its acronym LPG was the official designation for large, collectivised farms in the former East Germany, corresponding to Soviet Kolkhoz.

Margitta Gummel

She competed for the Unified German team in the 1964 Summer Olympics, East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and East Germany again at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Mariano Pulido

Pulido represented Spain at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, appearing in a 0–1 loss against East Germany for an eventual group stage exit.

ORWO

In 1953 the plant became the property of East Germany, and in a trade agreement settlement, the East German company, VEB Film- und Chemiefaserwerk Agfa Wolfen, was given the right to sell its products under the Agfa brand in Eastern Europe, while the newly re-established Agfa in West German Leverkusen had the right to the name in the rest of the world.

Patrick Kühl

Patrick Kühl (born March 26, 1968 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a former medley swimmer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley for the GDR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Reinhard Eiben

Reinhard Eiben (born 4 December 1951 in Crossen, Zwickau) is a former East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s.

René Friedl

René Friedl (born July 17, 1967 in Friedrichroda) is an East German-German luger who has competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Richard Nowakowski

Richard Nowakowski (born September 27, 1955 in Sztum, Poland) is a retired boxer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Schweinfurt–Meiningen railway

From then on the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in East Germany only operated the Meiningen–Rentwertshausen–Römhild section.

Siegfried Schnabl

Siegfried Schnabl (born 27 February 1927 in Limbach, Sachsen) is a German sexologist and psychotherapist who contributed to the work of sex education in East Germany and other nations.

Strausberg–Strausberg Nord railway

The headquarters of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (the militarised unit of the East German police, which was transformed in 1956 into the National People's Army) was moved in June 1954 from Berlin-Adlershof to Strausberg, because Berlin had been declared a demilitarised zone by the four occupying powers.

The Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna

On 24 March 2000, the Berlin research firm “Facts & Files” issued a press release which stated that Berlin historian and archivist Jörg Rudolph had found a collection of “Eichmann dossiers” in the former Nazi archives of the Ministry for State Security of communist East Germany, which had, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, been relocated to the German Federal Archives’ temporary archive in Hoppegarten near Berlin.

The Free Market Cure

The Lemon draws parallels between collectivized healthcare systems and the East German Trabant, a noisy, inefficient, underpowered automobile that remained a symbol of communist inefficiency and lack of ingenuity, mostly unchanged for nearly thirty years.

Theodor Körner

:* Theodor Körner Prize (GDR), an award in the former East Germany

Treaty of Zgorzelec

The Treaty of Zgorzelec (Full title The Agreement Concerning the Demarcation of the Established and the Existing Polish-German State Frontier, also known as the Treaty of Görlitz and Treaty of Zgorzelic) between the Republic of Poland and East Germany (GDR) was signed on 6 July 1950 in Polish Zgorzelec, since 1945 the eastern part of the divided city of Görlitz.

Verwaltung des ehemaligen Reichsbahnvermögens

The Verwaltung des ehemaligen Reichsbahnvermögens (VdeR) was a body created in 1953 to take ownership of assets and properties of the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn in the western sectors of Berlin.

Vietnamese people in Bulgaria

According to an international agreement of 1980, Bulgaria, along with other Comecon members such as East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, accepted Vietnamese guest workers in the country as a relatively cheaper manual labour workforce.

Vladimir Estragon

Both names were chosen by Harth who had favored Samuel Becket as a writer from around 1968 on.Harth interpreted the two characters Wladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot as West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War who are waiting for unification.Surprisingly to everybody the iron curtain collapsed some months after the foundation of the music group Vladimir Estragon.

Walther Bauersfeld

Bauersfeld remained with the core firm in Jena, East Germany, where after 1953 he developed the ZKP-1 (Zeisskleinplanetarium=Zeiss Small Planetarium #1).

Winfried Freudenberg

Freudenberg was born in Osterwieck, and grew up in the Saxony-Anhalt town of Lüttgenrode, near what was then the border between his native East Germany, which was then a part of the communist Eastern Bloc, as a satellite state of the Soviet Union, and West Germany.

Wolfgang Lakenmacher

Wolfgang Lakenmacher (born October 8, 1943 in Neuenhofe, Sachsen-Anhalt) is a former East German handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.


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