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Visitors to East Germany could only enter the country by car, bus, or train – not by bicycle or on foot. The exceptions to this were international airports, as well as Checkpoint Charlie. A special case involved the Friedrichstraße train station in East Berlin, which one could reach from West Berlin by U-Bahn, S-Bahn, or long-distance train.
Between 1949 and 1957, the East German Sports Committee (Deutscher Sportausschuß; DS) was officially responsible for administering the country's various leagues via its Football Section (SF). In addition to securing the GDR membership in football's international governing body FIFA, the SF was a co-founder of European football's foremost ...
The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about 1/4 of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.
The East Germany national football team, recognised as Germany DR by FIFA, represented East Germany in men's international football, playing as one of three post-war German teams, along with Saarland and West Germany . After German reunification in 1990, the Deutscher Fußball Verband der DDR ( DFV, English: German Football Association of the ...
Leaders of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) On 1 December 1989, the People's Chamber removed the section of the East German Constitution granting the SED a monopoly of power—thus ending Communist rule in East Germany. Before the month was out, the SED transformed from a Leninist cadre party into a democratic socialist party ...
Leipzig became one of the major cities of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Following the end of World War II in 1945, Leipzig saw a slow return of Jews to the city. They were joined by large numbers of German refugees who had been expelled from Central and Eastern Europe in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement.
Ring of rye. Other elements. Flag of Germany. Use. National People's Army. Volkspolizei. The national emblem of East Germany featured a hammer and a compass, surrounded by a ring of rye. [citation needed] It was an example of what has been called "socialist heraldry". It was the only heraldic device of a European socialist state with a ring of ...
