Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism

The Úřad dokumentace a vyšetřování zločinů Komunismu, ÚDV abbreviated, German Office for the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, is a Czech, total state operating department of criminal police, who investigate and uncover the illegal activities of public institutions in the years 1948-1989 in Czechoslovakia should. The headquarters is in Prague.

Tasks

( This was the prosecutor's office or the Department of Justice assumed ) The Authority was established on 1 January 1995 by the merger of the Office for the Documentation and Investigation of the activities of the State Security ( StB ) (which was under the Ministry of Interior ) and the Documentation Centre of the illegality of the communist regime. Since 1 January 2002, the authority of the police and their investigation service is assumed.

In this capacity, she continues uncovering criminal acts of State bodies from the period of communist rule from 1948 to 1989. Tested and documented the actions of the communist regime and its repressive apparatus as violation of human rights and international law, suppression of various political, religious, social and other opinions and groups, the activities of the secret police StB to participation in show trials of suspected torture and unlawful executions and judicial murder.

In addition, the disclosures also serve criminal prosecution - in mid-2008 there were 192 persons prosecuted. Among the prominent former officials of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, who were charged due to the ÚDV investigation, part of the former Prime Minister of the country, Lubomir Strougal, as well as other state attorneys general, several ministers and deputy ministers, five Politburo members, some senior army commanders, etc.

The Authority is also involved in various security checks. Also worth mentioning is the publication of the archives of the former Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1999/2000.

The results of the work should be documented and made ​​available to the public in the form of numerous reports (all in German translation ):

  • ÚDV, Department of Documentation - Your activity and results are online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz / .. / činnosť.
  • ÚDV, documents, online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz / .. / zpravy.
  • ÚDV, information on cases online at: . Aplikace.mvcr.cz / .. / pripady
  • ÚDV, publications and articles to our authority - of contemporaries, online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz / .. / svedectvi.
  • ÚDV, publications and articles to our authority - books, online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz / .. / sesity.
  • ÚDV, publications and articles to our authority - Securitas Imperii - the scrapbook online at: aplikace.mvcr.cz / .. / Securita.

A similar tasks range also the Ústav per study has set totalitních režimů (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes ).

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