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|jurisdiction = Government of Germany|headquarters = Berlin|employees =|budget =|chief1_name =|chief1_position =|parent_agency =|child1_agency =|website = www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de|footnotes =}}The Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED DictatorshipWEB,weblink Dictatorship an Democracy in the age of Extremes: Spotlights on the History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany, 25 August 2019, BOOK, Anna Saunders, Memorializing the GDR: Monuments and Memory after 1989, Berghahn, 2018, 11, (, alternatively translated as "(Federal) Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany"WEB, Exhibitions, Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany,weblink 25 August 2019, NEWS,weblink Marcel Fürstenau, Understanding East Germany: A never-ending look at the past, DW, 15 October 2018, ) is a government-funded organisation established in 1998 by the German parliament.Its mandate is to assess the history (1949–1990) of the socialist regime of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, commonly known as East Germany), and its impact on the now reunified Germany.As its logo, the foundation uses the former East German flag minus its coat of arms. In the final months of the GDR, many East German citizens cut out the flag's emblem in this manner.The foundation also initiated a project "Aufbruch 1989"WEB,weblink "Stipendienprogramm Aufbruch 1989", in which 17 organisations cooperated, including the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung which is affiliated with the SED successor party, Die Linke. This was rejected by Hubertus Knabe, and after it was made public,"Zwist unter Aufarbeitern", Die Welt, 30 June 2007 {{in lang|de}} by a public letter"Der Verherrlichung der SED-Diktatur entgegentreten!" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318165202weblink |date=2008-03-18 }} (Open letter to the foundation) {{in lang|de}} signed by Bärbel Bohley, Werner Schulz, Lutz Rathenow, {{ill|Joachim Walther|de}}, Ralph Giordano, Erich Loest and others, with support by Lea Rosh and Michael Wolffsohn."Streit unter SED-Opfern", Focus {{in lang|de}}WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071010054027weblink">weblink dead, PR-inside: SED-Opfer kritisieren Zusammenarbeit mit Luxemburg-Stiftung, October 10, 2007, WEB,weblink Märkische Allgemeine of 6 July 2007,

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• www.bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de {{in lang|en}}
• "Zwist unter den Stasi-Aufklärern", Berliner Morgenpost {{in lang|de}}

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