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Wilhelm Pieck assumed control of East Germany in 1949.
It was called East Germany!
The Ukraine was the farthest they got. See map on link below.
In World War I, the Japanese joined the Allies for a time, and fought the German army in east Asia.
The leaders of the two German states at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall were: West Germany: Helmut Kohl East Germany: Erich Honneker (ironically the man responsible for overseeing its construction in the first place)
When the Berlin Wall was built, the East German government was communist. Although other parties were allowed, these had to agree to submit to the leadership of the communist Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED Socialist Unity Party of Germany). At the time the East German leader and General Secretary of the SED was Walter Ulbricht, but the the man charged with building the wall was Erich Honneker.Fittingly (and ironically) Honnecker was General Secretary of the SED and East German leader when the Wall came down.
German East Africa ended in 1919.
German East Africa was created in 1885.
East German mark was created in 1948.
East German mark ended in 1990.
Former East German leader Egon Krenz is convicted for a shoot to kill policy at the Berlin Wall. Source: Wikipedia
German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in East Africa, including what is now Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika (the mainland part of present Tanzania).
East German Green Party was created in 1990.
German East African rupie ended in 1916.
German East African rupie was created in 1890.
East German Air Force was created in 1956.