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Glossary

CSCE

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

EVG

Europäische Verteidigungsgemeinschaft (European Defense Community)

FRG

Federal Republic of Germany

GDR

German Democratic Republic

GSSD

Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland (Group of the Soviet Forces in Germany)

HVA

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (General Reconnaissance Administration)

KGB

Комитет государственной безопасности (Committee for State Security)

KVP

Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Garrisoned People's Police)

NVA

Nationale Volksarmee (National People's Army)

MBFR

Mutual Balanced Force Reductions

MfNV

Ministerium für nationale Verteidigung (Ministry of National Defense)

MGFA

Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Research Institute for Military History of Germany's Defense MInistry)

SBZ

Sowjetisch Besetzte Zone (Soviet Occupied Zone)

SED

Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany)

SKK

Sowjetische Kontrollkommission (Soviet Control Commission)

SMAD

Sowjetische Militäradministration in Deutschland (Soviet Military Administration in Germany)

STASI

Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry for State Security)

WEU

Western European Union

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