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Berlin – Four years ago, Julia Schneider noticed that she had a birth certificate from the GDR. She is 31 years old and has not needed the document very often. Sure, she thought as she held it in her hand. She was born in March 1990, in the Charité, two weeks before the first free elections in the GDR, which also sealed the end of the country. But in the first six months of her life, Julia Schneider was a citizen of the GDR.
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