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The Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (German: Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship) 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.