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Responsibilities

The Treuhand was responsible for more than just the 8500 state-owned enterprises (Volkseigener Betriebe or VEBs). It also took over around 2.4m hectares of agricultural land and forests; the property of the former Stasi; large parts of the property of the former National People's Army, largescale public housing property as well as the property of the state pharmacy network. At reunification on 3 October 1990 it also took over the property of the political parties and mass organisations of the German Democratic Republic.[1] Bericht: Die Treuhandanstalt im Kontext der deutschen Einigung; Referat von Burkhard Berndt am 02.07.2007 Read full entry

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