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 | | The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD – Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) is thesecond oldest political party of Germany still in existence and also one of the oldest and richest in members in the world, celebrating its 140thanniversary in 2003. |
 | | In the Russian sector which later became East Germany (GDR), the SocialDemocratic Party and the Communist Party ofGermany were forced to merge to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), although there remained a separate SPD in EastBerlin. |
 | | During the fall of the GDR in 1989, the SPD was refounded as a separate party inEast Germany (called SDP during the first months), then merged with its West German counterpart. |
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