Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1119-324, Wolfgang Schwanitz

The Gesellschaft zur Rechtlichen und Humanitären Unterstützung (GRH) (English : Society for Legal and Humanitarian Assistance) is a German historical negationist organisation consisting of former employees of the

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

secret police, the Stasi. It was led by the last Stasi chief, Wolfgang Schwanitz until his death in 2022. In Germany the organisation is best known for its attempt to portray the Stasi in a positive light and for trivializing or denying the political repression in East Germany. It has become widely known in Germany for massively disturbing memorial ceremonies or other forms of public events relating to political repression in East Germany. It has also been accused of harassing victims of the East German regime, journalists, and politicians. GRH has been described by historian

Hubertus Knabe Hubertus Knabe (born 1959) is a German historian and was the scientific director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, a museum and memorial in a notorious former Stasi torture prison in Berlin. Knabe is noted for several works on oppression ...

, the Director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, as an "aid association for state criminals."Knabe 2008 p. 277ff

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gesellschaft zur Rechtlichen und Humanitaren Unterstutzung Stasi Historical negationism German veterans' organisations Advocacy groups in Germany Communism in Germany