translate English to German: While West Germany cultivated "anti-totalitarian" principles in reaction to its recent past, the Soviet occupation zone, later to become the German Democratic Republic, had to limit itself to "anti-fascist" tenets.
Der Parlamentarische Rat in Bonn, der 1948/49 das Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland erarbeitete, zog systematische Konsequenzen aus den Mängeln der Weimarer Reichsverfassung von 1919.