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English
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The Legal Status of the LDS Church
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Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State : A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1990
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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55-61
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The path to full legal authority for the Church in the GDR was long, difficult, and complicated. That path began in 1945, when Paul Langheinrich registered the Church with the SMAD in Berlin-Karlshorst. However, after the new GDR government was established in 1949, the Church's name was not found on the SMAD's list of registered churches. [From the text]