To the day of its incorporation into West Germany in 1990, it was at most the " GDR" , written with inverted commas, or more contemptuously, the Zone—recalling its original status as the Soviet-occupied bit of defeated Nazi Germany.

直到 1990 年并入西德的那一天， 它最多是用倒逗号写成的“GDR”，或者更轻蔑地说，Zone——让人想起它最初的地位， 即被苏联占领的被击败的纳粹德国。