East Germany

1949–1990 country in central Europe, unified into modern Germany

thumb|GDR T-shirts, for sale in Berlin in 2004 thumb|right|Soviet and GDR Memorabilia for sale in Berlin in 2006 thumb|right|Jägerschnitzel, a popular East German cuisine item In German culture, Ostalgie () is nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany. It is a portmanteau of the German words Ost (east) and Nostalgie (nostalgia). Its anglicised equivalent, ostalgia (rhyming with "nostalgia"), is also sometimes used. Another term for the phenomenon is GDR nostalgia ().

aspect of history, when Germany was divided into two separate states

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Proposed German state unification

West Germanic standard of language, based on High German dialects, was the literary language in the German Democratic Republic