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Continuing the revolutionary tradition of the German working class and supported by the liberation from fascism, the people of the German Democratic Republic, in accordance with the processes of historical development of our epoch, have realized their right to socioeconomic, governmental, and national self-determination, and have created a developed socialist society.
Imbued by the will to determine their own fate freely, to continue resolutely along the path of socialism and Communism, peace, democracy, and peace among nations, the people of the German Democratic Republic have given themselves this socialist constitution.
Article 1
The German Democratic Republic is a socialist state of workers
and farmers. It is the political organization of the working
population in town and country under the leadership of the working
class and its Marxist-Leninist party.
The capital of the
German Democratic Republic is Berlin.
The state flag of the
German Democratic Republic consists of the colors black, red, and
gold, and shows the state emblem of the German Democratic Republic
in the center of both sides.
The state emblem of the German
Democratic Republic is a hammer and compass surrounded by a wreath
of grain whose base is entwined by a black, red, and gold ribbon.
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Article 8
(1) The generally recognized rules of international law serving
peace and peaceful cooperation among nations are binding on the
state authority and on every citizen.
(2) The German
Democratic Republic will never undertake a war of aggression or
use its armed forces against the freedom of another people.
Source: Constitution of the GDR (1974); reprinted in Dietrich Müller-Römer, ed., Die neue Verfassung der DDR. Cologne, 1974, p. 78 ff.