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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 5791064, member: 78949&quot;]Ownedbybear, you are right, East Germany was marked DDR, I have seen a lot of pieces manufactured there, not jewelry but all kind of appliances and also many books, all marked DDR (or ГДР in Cyrillic). They were an important member of Comecon (the internal economic&nbsp; system of the Soviet empire). East Germany was a qollocuial name only.&nbsp; It was an ideological imperative for them to use DDR because they had to stress how democratic their rule was. Even East Berlin was officially referred to as &quot;Berlin, the capital of DDR&quot;.&nbsp; So if it is Germany, it is either before WWII or from&nbsp; West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany, or Bundesrepublik Deutschland). After the unification they together became FRG.</p><p>The thing is that all kind of unsubstantiated claims can be found online, like the one I mentioned, that if it is marked Germany, it has to be before WWII.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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