Stasi-Unterlagenbehörde

The Stasi Records Agency was the organisation that administered the archives of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) of the former German Democratic Republic. It was a government agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was established when the Stasi Records Act came into force on 29 December 1991. Formally it was called the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic ; the official German abbreviation was BStU. On 17 June 2