Egon Krenz was the last leader of this country, whose citizens were policed by the (*) Stasi.
One participant in this country's June 1953 rebellion was fictionalized as Harry Melchior in the 2001 film The Tunnel. The movie Night Crossing depicted how two families fled this country via a hot air balloon, and Peter Fechter was left to die in a "death strip" after being shot while trying to escape it. Egon Krenz was the last leader of this country, whose citizens were policed by the (*) Stasi. Due to a massive brain drain, Walter Ulbricht began the construction of a structure in this country that would later be torn down in 1989 with pickaxes and sledgehammers. For ten points, name this Soviet-dominated nation that built the Berlin Wall and joined with West Germany in 1990.
One participant in this country's June 1953 rebellion was fictionalized as Harry Melchior in the 2001 film The Tunnel.
East Germany [or Ostdeutschland; or Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR; or German Democratic Republic or GDR; prompt on "Germany" or "Deutschland"; do not accept or prompt on "Republic of Germany" or "Federal Republic of Germany"]