Germany

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. We also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each EU country.

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Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

DDR past

Rehabilitierungsgesetz der DDR

1990

Stasi Files Act (Stasi-Unterlagengesetz, StUG) (see text here)

1991

Erstes SED-Unrechtsbereinigungsgesetz (First Rehabilitation Law) (see text here)

1992

Study Commission for Working Through the History and the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in Germany (see text here)

1992

Zweites SED-Unrechtsbereinigungsgesetz (Second Rehabilitation Law)

 

Criminal Code, as amended in 1994 and 2005 (Anti-sedition Law) (see text here)

1994 and 2005

Study Commission for the Overcoming of the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity (see text here)

1995

Mauergrundstücksgesetz (see text here)

1996

Drittes Gesetz zur Verbesserung rehabilitierungsrechtlicher Vorschriften in der ehemaligen DDR (Third Rehabilitation Law) (see text here)

2007

Vierte Gesetz zur Verbesserung rehabilitierungsrechtlicher Vorschriften für Opfer der politischen Verfolgung in der ehemaligen DDR (Fourth Act to improve rehabilitation of legislation for victims of political persecution in the former GDR) (see text here)

2010

 Article 86a of the Criminal code (symbols) (see text here)

 

Nazi past

Federal Act for the Settlement of the Monetary Restitution Liabilities of the German Reich and Legal Entities of Equal Legal Status (Bundesrückerstattungsgesetz, BRüG) (see text here)

1957

Act Regulating Open Property Issues (see text here)

1990