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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former country of central Europe bordering on the North Sea. It was part of Germany until 1945, when the country was divided into US, French, British, and Soviet zones of occupation. In 1949 the three western zones were reconstituted as West Germany; the Soviet zone became East Germany. West Germany was reunified with East Germany in 1990.
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- proper noun A former
country inEurope , now part ofGermany . Officially called theFederal Republic of Germany (FRG).
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- noun a republic in north central Europe on the North Sea; established in 1949 from the zones of Germany occupied by the British and French and Americans after the German defeat; reunified with East Germany in 1990
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Examples
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They are certainly critical of the new NATO-built neocolony known as West Germany, and they are critical of that entity from a leftist perspective that saw the Christian Democrats as more Nazi than Democrat and began to see Bonn's Social-Democratic Party (SPD) as a political successor to the party that sucked the life out of the 1918 German revolution.
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To go directly from East to West Germany is to experience at first hand the contrast between the absurdity of the East and the absurdity of the West.
The Young in Berlin Spender, Stephen 1968
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Juergen Klinsmann scored 47 World Cup goals and won a title with West Germany in 1990.
NYT > Home Page By GEORGE VECSEY 2011
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Bill had sabbatical leaves in "West Germany", in 1981, Sweden in 1991-92; and England in 1998.
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It would be dishonest of us to say that we can completely understand a generation that is growing in inter-connected world - when my parents and grandparents took me to countries such as West Germany, Netherlands, Austria,
X-bit labs 2009
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In other words, they believed that saying "West Germany" in the 1980s implied that there was "a Germany" that was divided, and that should be united.
Kasama redflags 2009
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As President George H. W. Bush took office in January 1989, some in his administration doubted the Soviet leader’s sincerity, believing he was scheming to divide the US from NATO allies such as West Germany by encouraging their people’s support for reductions in short-range nuclear forces SNF, which the Bush administration wanted to upgrade as part of their deterrence strategy.
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Stoph singled out Bill Haley and the Comets, who had toured West Germany in 1958.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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West Germany, American cultural centers in, 290–91
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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A 1959 report to the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party showed that rock-and-roll protests, illegal trips to West Germany, acts of “outrageous instigation” against the GDR leadership, and youth crime had all increased rapidly.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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