page_title: Land Brandenburg Commissioner for the Study of the Repercussions of the Communist Dictatorship
section_title: Function
hierarchical_section_title: Land Brandenburg Commissioner for the Study of the Repercussions of the Communist Dictatorship / Function
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Sitz der/s Beauftragten des Landes Brandenburg zur Aufarbeitung der Folgen der kommunistischen Diktatur in der Hegelallee 3, 14467 Potsdam.
context_page_description: The Commissioner of the Land of Brandenburg for the Study of the Repercussions of the Communist Dictatorship is responsible for advising residents of Brandenburg who were directly persecuted or indirectly affected by the communist rule during the period of Soviet occupation from 1945-49 and during the existence of the German Democratic Republic from 1949-1989. The agency is formally known as "die Beauftragte des Landes Brandenburg zur Aufarbeitung der Folgen der kommunistischen Diktatur“ and usually referred to as „Die Landesbeauftragte für Aufarbeitung“ or „Die Aufarbeitungsbeauftragte“.
context_section_description: Para. 2 of the “Aufarbeitungsbeauftragtengesetz” defines the duties of the state commissioner. These can be summarised in three categories.
caption: The LAkD office in central Potsdam (Hegelallee 3)
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