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East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland,), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990. Until 1989 it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state"