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Examples
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Given the recent wave of Ostalgia, volunteers are likely to jump at the chance -- if only to be entitled to yell at "Wessi" tourists.
Hello, Lenin! 2007
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It is just because he is not an East German survivor but a fresh, cosmopolitan child of the Americanized West, a privileged Wessi down to the carefully unbuttoned tips of his pink button-down shirt, fluent in American-accented English and the universal language of Hollywood, that he is able to translate the East German experience into an idiom that catches the imagination of the world.
The Stasi on Our Minds Ash, Timothy Garton 2007
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And Catrin, a Web page designer, says: "Now you hardly even hear people referred to as 'Ossi' and 'Wessi.'"
SFGate: Top News Stories By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer 2009
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Wessi evolved as a derogatory nickname for a West German; its corollary is
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