Geography of East Germany

former Soviet sector of Berlin and capital of the GDR

Eisenhüttenstadt (; ) is a town in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the Oder–Spree Canal and the River Oder on the border with Poland. Eisenhüttenstadt was founded as a planned city by East Germany in 1950, as a socialist model city and a state-owned steel mill complex. It was known as Stalinstadt () between 1953 and 1961, in honor of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and received its current name during the de-Stalinization campaign.

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regions in East Germany that couldn’t receive West German radio and television programming

250px|thumb|right|A former entrance gate into Waldsiedlung Waldsiedlung (German for "Forest settlement") was the secure housing zone for the leaders of the German Democratic Republic in Bernau bei Berlin, Brandenburg from 1960 to 1989. Waldsiedlung housed the most senior party members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in relative luxury near Wandlitz, north of East Berlin, with surrounding areas off-limits to all ordinary citizens.

thumb|Halle-Neustadt in 1982 thumb|The rail link to Leuna and Buna, Halle-Neustadt railway station, now Zscherben street (Zscherbener Straße) in 1967

quarter in Leipzig, Germany