Abbreviations
| ABV | Local VP Representative (Abschnittsbevollmächtigter) | ||
| AfNS | Office of National Security (Amt für nationale Sicherheit) | ||
| BfV |
German Counterintelligence Service (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) | ||
| BND | Federal (German) Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) | ||
| BRD | Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) | ||
| BS | Business Protection Police (Betriebsschutzpolizei) | ||
| DDR | German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) | ||
| DVP | German People's Police (Deutsche Volkspolizei) | ||
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), formerly the Soviet occupation zone | ||
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), for- merly the occupation zones of Britain, France and the United States | ||
| GMS |
Social Workers for Security ( MfS) (gesellschaftliche Mitarbeiter für Sicherheit) | ||
| HIM |
Full-time Unofficial Worker ( MfS) (hauptamtliche inoffizielle Mitarbeiter) | ||
| IM | Unofficial Worker ( MfS) (inoffizielle Mitarbeiter) | ||
| Kripo | Detective Police Department of the VP (Kriminalpolizei) | ||
| MdI | Ministry of the Interior (Ministerium des Innern) | ||
| MfIA | Ministry for Internal Affairs (Ministerium für innere Angelegenheiten) | ||
| MfS | Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) | ||
| NVA | National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee) | ||
| OibE | Officers on Special Duty (Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz) | ||
| PM | Pass and Registration Department of the People's Police (Paß und Meldewesen) | ||
| RAF | Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) | ||
| Schupo | Protection Police Department of People's Police (Schutzpolizei) | ||
| SED | Socialist Unity Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands) | ||
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Publication information:
Book title: Policing a Socialist Society:The German Democratic Republic.
Contributors: Nancy Travis Wolfe - Author.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1992.
Page number: xix.
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