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  • noun Plural form of East German.

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Examples

  • So, with this first anecdotal tale, I ask all German and non-German spouses affected by bad laws to stand up and get your neighbor to demand change -- just as the East Germans did 20 years ago.

    OpEdNews - Diary: GERMANY, I Have a Dream for You and Europe. What is Your Dream? 2010

  • So, with this first anecdotal tale, I ask all German and non-German spouses affected by bad laws to stand up and get your neighbor to demand change -- just as the East Germans did 20 years ago.

    Printing: GERMANY, I Have a Dream for You and Europe. What is Your Dream? 2010

  • Unable to sleep with all of the celebration, they had taken a couple of bottles of champagne and some plastic cups down to the wall and passed out champagne to the East Germans streaming through.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » When the Berlin Wall Came Down, Twenty Years Ago 2009

  • In the ensuing months, East Germans would dismantle the secret police apparatus once and for all, laying bare the full scope of repression exercised by an intelligence service subject to no external control.

    Belinda Cooper: Revealing Secrets 2009

  • There was talk that, with the Games on U.S. soil and no Russians or East Germans to contend with, American athletes were getting preferential treatment on their way to vacuuming up every medal in sight.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • But the sad thing is that the international gymnastics federation will most likely let China get away with this, just like the international swimming federation let the East Germans get away with systematic doping of their female athletes back in the 1980's.

    Friday Night Miscellany Jan 2008

  • A young Englishman named Leonard Marnham becomes enmeshed in a wiretapping operation run against the Russians and East Germans in Berlin in the mid-1950s.

    A Hot Tale Of The Cold War 2008

  • There was talk that, with the Games on U.S. soil and no Russians or East Germans to contend with, American athletes were getting preferential treatment on their way to vacuuming up every medal in sight.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • As of July 1, East Germans from 15 to 59 years old were eligible to convert up to 4,000 Ostmarks into Deutsche marks, one to one.

    The Wealth Of A Nation 2008

  • But the sad thing is that the international gymnastics federation will most likely let China get away with this, just like the international swimming federation let the East Germans get away with systematic doping of their female athletes back in the 1980's.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

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