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    FROM DIVISION TO UNIFICATION

    Apr 13, 2023 1 minute

    7 October 1949 East Germany is born

    The German Democratic Republic is founded. Wilheim Pieck becomes its president, Otto Grotewohl its minister-president. Real power lies with Walter Ulbricht (left), one of Grotewohl's deputies and, from 1950, general secretary of the ruling party.

    8 February 1950 State surveillance

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