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===Limited usage in the railway system of the German Democratic Republic===
The exception is that during the [[Cold War]], the [[East Germany|East German]] [[railway]] incongruously continued to use the name ''[[Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR|Deutsche Reichsbahn]]'' (German Reich Railways), which had been the name of the national railway during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era. Even after [[German reunification]] in October 1990, the Reichsbahn continued to exist for over three years as the operator of the railroad in eastern Germany, ending finally on 1 January 1994 when the Reichsbahn and the western [[Deutsche Bundesbahn]] were merged to form the privatized [[Deutsche Bahn AG]].