Theodor Heuss of the Free Democrats was elected the first president . The East German states adopted a more centralized constitution for the Democratic Republic of Germany , put into effect on Oct . 7 , 1949 . The USSR thereupon dissolved its occupation zone but Soviet troops remained . The Western allies declared that the East German Republic was a Soviet creation undertaken without self-determination and refused to recognize it . Soviet forces created a state controlled by the secret police with a single party , the...











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