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This makes me suspect that DE indeed stands for Deutschland (a country code of some sort), although the article never did say what if stood for. I suspect other countries will also have their own country code.
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Think of country codes like our State abbreviations. Some seem odd to us, because the native name of a country is dissimilar to the English name for it. Germany to Germans, for example, is Deutschland (DE). Switzerland is CH (I've never figured that one out). Here's a list:
AD Andorra
AL Albania
AT Austria
BA Bosnia-Hercegovina
BE Belgium
BG Bulgaria
BY Belarus
CH Switzerland, Helvetia
CY Cyprus
CZ Czech Republic
DE Germany
DK Denmark
EE Estonia
ES Spain
FI Finland, Suomi
FO Faroe Islands (DK)
FR France
GG Guernsey (UK)
GI Gibraltar (UK)
GR Greece
HR Croatia
HU Hungary
IE Ireland
IM Isle of Man (UK)
IS Iceland
IT Italy
JE Jersey (UK)
LI Liechtenstein
LT Lithuania
LU Luxemburg
LV Latvia
MC Monaco
MD Moldova
MK Macedonia
MT Malta
NL Netherlands
NO Norway
PL Poland
PT Portugal
RO Romania
RU Russian Federation (West) Pоссий
SE Sweden
SI Slovenia
SJ Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (NO)
SK Slovakia
SM San Marino
TR Turkey, West
UA Ukraine
UK United Kingdom
VA Vatican City State (IT)
YU Yugoslavia Jугославиjа