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Sat 04 Apr 2007The two faces of East GermanyHow should the old East be remembered in a united Germany? New divisions are emerging, writes Derek Scallyin Berlin.The heavy pendulum of German history keeps swinging. Six decades after the collapse of Germany's first dictatorship, the country is turning its attention to the second, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) which, like most countries that flaunt the word in its official title, was democratic in name only.