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In West-Germany we used a plethora of names: * "SBZ" -> Sowjetisch besetzte Zone -> sowjet occupied zone * "Ost-Zone" * "DDR" * "Ost-Deutschland" Almost no

In West-Germany we used a plethora of names: * "SBZ" -> Sowjetisch besetzte Zone -> sowjet occupied zone * "Ost-Zone" * "DDR" * "Ost-Deutschland" Almost no one spelled out "DDR" with "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", since that was a lie. There was little democracy there. People that fled from east-germany early (e.g. before the wall) usually used "SBZ "or "Zone". And it was usually meant in a derogatory sense. "DDR" was more neutral, although few people in west-germany had a neutral view on the eastern regime.

rob74 20d ago
The funniest thing about the GDR was that its railways were still called "Deutsche Reichsbahn" ("German Imperial Railways" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Reichsbahn_(East_Germany) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Reichsbahn_(East_Germ...). Apparently they needed to keep the name in order to be able to still operate trains in West Berlin.