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Founded in 1920-03

The Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft was established in 1920-03 after the unification of the Reichsernährungsministerium and the Reichswirtschaftsministerium.

• Supreme Command of German Armed Forces
• OKW

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The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht issued the directive for the war on the Soviet Union on 1941-06-04: ‘The total elimination of all resistance passive or active’. This was a mandate for mass murder against military and civilian targets contravening all traditional rules of war.

• Drážďanská banka

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• 1872-2009
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Dresdner Bank was established on 12 November 1872. By 1900, Dresdner bank had the largest German branch network. After the banking crisis in 1931 the German Reich owned 66% of Dresdner Bank shares. Its deputy director was Dr Schacht, Minister of Economy under Nazism. The Bank was reprivatised in 1937. During World War II, Dresdner Bank controlled various banks in countries under German Occupation. It took over the Bohemian Discount Bank in Prague, the Societa Bancara Romana in Bucharest, the Handels- und Kreditbank in Riga, the Kontinentale Bank in Brussels, and Banque d'Athenes. It maintai...

• German Resettlement Population Policy
• RKFDV

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1939/1945

The Reichskommissariat für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums program was a form of imperialism in which the oldest patterns of the biological struggle for group survival were treated as norms. The RKFDV took away the lands and the wealth of other peoples, and established themselves in these new areas with this new wealth.

• Generální velitel uniformované protektorátní policie
• General Commander of the Uniformed Police in the Protectorate

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• 1942-1945
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Based on the decree of Reinhard Heydrich since 1st of July 1942 the security services in the protectorate Bohemia and Moravia were new organized. Uniformed police forces like the Gendarmerie, the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei/Pořadková policie) and the Municipal police (Stadtpolizei/Městská policie) were reorganized into the "Uniformed Protectorate police" (Uniformierte Protektoratspolizei/Uniformované protektorátní policie), which were in the Ministery of Interior under the supervison of the General Commander of the Uniformed Protectorate police (Generalkommandant der uniformierten Protekt...

• Bývalí žáci československých škol ve Velké Británii

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• 1985-2005
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The documents had been collected primaliry by Judith Wolt (the wife of John Wolt, one of the former students) since 1985. She tried to gather everything that was connected to the Czechoslovak´s schools in the United Kingdom, contacted many former students, and received documents from them.

• Landesgendarmeriekommando Prag
• Land Gendarmerie command Prague

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• 1918-1942
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The Gendarmerie as armed police forces existed in the Bohemian lands already in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In the new Czechoslovak State the Gendarmerie was placed under the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Interior and organized in four main commands: Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Uzhhorod. The Gendarmerie took over the main police duties in the state. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in March 1939 the gendarmerie became part of the occupation administration.

• Czechoslovak Red Cross, London

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• 1939-1948
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After the forced dissolution of the Czechoslovak Red Cross on 5th of August 1940 by the German occupiers the Czechoslovak government in Exile founded the Czechoslovak Red Cross in London and its delegations in Egypt, Iran, Italy, Palestine, USA. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, the London office moved to Prague. During the war, the main task of the Czechoslovak Red Cross was to provide medical care for the military, the medical care for Czechoslovak refugees and for Czechoslovak citizens in the territory of Nazi Germany.

• Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile
• Československá exilová vláda

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• 1940-1945
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1. 1. 1940 - 5. 4. 1945

The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile (known also as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) was accepted by the British Government after the Nazi occupation of France in 1940. It continued in the political effort of the former Czechoslovak official authority known as the Czech National Liberation Committee (set up in France in 1939) to reverse the Munich Agreement and the subsequent German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and to return the Republic to its 1937 boundaries. The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile consisted of the President, the Goverment and the State Council (which represent...

• State Council

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• 1940-1945
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1. 1. 1940 - April 1945

The National Council was created as an advisory and check board of the Czechoslovak government-in-Exile in 1940. Its members were representatives of Czechoslovak political parties. The President of the National Council was Rudolf Bechyně.

• National Tribunal (1945 - 1947)

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• 1945-1947
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The National Tribunal was established according to the presidential decree n. 17 in December 1945 and functioned as the criminal court and as the court of honour for the prominent war criminals on the national level. During its existence (to May 1947), the tribunal tried 80 defendants (18 death penalties). The judges were appointed by the government as well as the national prosecutor.

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London

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• 1940-1945
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• Special Correspondent Rostislav Kocourek

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• 1945-1949
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Rostislav Kocourek, a lawyer and a journalist, was working as the war correspondent in London during the WWII, after the war he was sent as a special correspondent of the Czechoslovak Press Office to Nurembeg. In 1960s, he helped identifying his work during the processing of the fonds.

• The Ministry of Finance - London

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• 1940-1945
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• Ministry of Economic Recovery - London

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• 1941-1945
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The Czechoslovak Ministry of Economic Recovery in Exile was established in 1941 and functioned till February 1945.

• Presidium of the Ministerial Council

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• 1940-1945
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• National Aryan Cultural Union
• Nationalarische Kulturvereinigung
• NAKJ

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Antisemitic organisation founded in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia.

• The Flag
• Český nacionalněsocialistický tábor - Vlajka
• ČNST-Vlajka

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• 1928-1943
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Vlajka was a small fascist and nationalist party in Czechoslovakia. It was named after a publication existing since 1928. The party was forbidden in November 1938 but allowed again in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia until 1943.

• Ministry of Interior - London

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• 1940-1945
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• Association of Liberated Political Prisoners

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1945-1948

The Association of Liberated Political Prisoners was a post-war organization that united people who were imprisoned during the war because of their political opinions and survivors. The main aim of the Association was to continue with fighting against the fascism and to protect Czechoslovak republic. Members were also people who were immprisoned because of their nationality, race or religion.