German Federal Republic

German Federal Republic

"German Federal Republic" ("Deutsche Bundesrepublik", DBR) was one of the derogatory terms used by the communist German Democratic Republic to refer to the Federal Republic of Germany from the 1950s until 1968, when they started using the propaganda term "BRD".


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