A significantly smaller Yugoslav community lived in East Berlin, mostly as diplomatic and economic cooperation representatives.

[4] Yugoslavia recognized East Germany as part of its efforts to improve relations with the Soviet Union after the 1948 Tito–Stalin split.

At the time, the 1955 Belgrade declaration was signed and Yugoslavia verbally supported the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary.

During the September 1964 official visit to the People's Republic of Bulgaria (conducted by train), Chairman of the East German State Council Walter Ulbricht unofficially visited Belgrade where he met with President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito.

[3] Contrary to countries of the Eastern Bloc, the Yugoslav State Security Administration never developed substantial cooperation with the East German Stasi due to continual ideological and political antagonism between Belgrade and East Berlin.