Maison de France bombing
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Deutschland 83
gizpelk-66064 — 10 years ago(December 26, 2015 04:28 PM)
I liked the series even though there made some mistakes. The most obvious was the bombing. The area they showed looked nothing like the real place. And people in West Germany didn't say Bundesrepublik Deutschland, but only Deutschland. Only the people in the East said that. I was there during 83.
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htowninsomniac — 10 years ago(January 31, 2016 06:43 PM)
Bundesrepublik Deutschland was (and still is) the official title of the country. I agree, though, that most laypeople would have just said "Deutschland" or "Westdeutschland".
As West German, it was definitely difficult to say "Deutsche demokratische Republik" (the official name for east Germany) without chuckling over the "democratic" part, or saying it in a mock-Honnecker (east German general secretary) accent. -
Zhow — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 08:50 AM)
Actually they did and prefered to say BRD rather than West Deutschland if they had to make the difference with the DDR.
On a daily basis, it was of course Deutschland but in a more formal and administrative context, BRD was commonly used and accepted.