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  1. Franz von Papen

  2. Hlinkova slovenská l’udová strana

    • Hlinka Slovak People’s Party
    • HSLS

    Wartime Slovakia was run by a triumvirate of anti-Semitic leaders who supported most of Nazi Germany’s racial policies. Father Jozef Tiso, a Roman Catholic priest, was the country’s president. Vojtech Tuka, the prime minister and foreign minister, was also head of the Nástupists, the radical wing of the Hlinkova slovenská l’udová strana. Alexander Mach, Slovakia’s propaganda minister, headed the Hlinka garda (Hlinka Guards), the armed Nazi-Fascist wing of the HSLS. This triumvirate gradually transformed Slovakia into a Fascist state.

  3. Mach Alexander

    • Mach, Alexander
    • Mach, Alexander, 1902-1980
    • Mach, Šaňo, 1902-1980

    11/10/1902

    15/10/1980

    Slovak nationalist politician. Member of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party. Minister of Internal Affairs of Slovak republic (1940-), Main Commander of Hlinka Guard (1939-). Sentenced to 25 years in prison by the post-WWII National Court in Bratislava. Released from prison in 1968.

  4. Josef Tiso

    Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest who led Slovakia from 1939 to 1945.

  5. Tuka Vojtech

    • Tuka, Vojtech, 1880-1946
    • Tuka, Béla 1880-1946
    • Tuka, Adalbert 1880-1946
    • Tuka, Vojtech

    1880

    1946

    Prime minister in the collaborationist Slovak government during WWII. Played an important role in the deportations of Slovak Jews.

  6. Commissariato di pubblica sicurezza di Foligno

    • Foligno Police Station

  7. Comune di Assisi

    • Municipality of Assisi

  8. Comune di Orvieto

    • Municipality of Orvieto

  9. Prefettura di Livorno

    • Livorno Prefecture

  10. Questura di Livorno

    • Livorno Police

  11. Prefettura di Trieste

    • Trieste Prefecture

  12. Bezirksgericht Baden

    • Baden District Court

  13. Bezirksgericht niederösterreichischer Gemeinden

    • Lower Austrian Municipalities District Court

  14. Swedish Red Cross

    • צלב אדום - שבדיה
    • Svenska Röda Korset

  15. Nyilaskeresztes Párt - Hungarista Mozgalom

    • Arrow Cross Party - Hungarist Movement
    • Arrow Cross

    (1935) 1939-1945

    Arrow Cross Party was the most popular right-wing extremist movement in Hungary before and during WWII. The party was founded in 1935 under the name of Party of National Will. Its leader, former officer of the General Staff, Ferenc Szálasi was imprisoned (1938-1940) and his party dissolved several times, however, managed to return to political life. In the last pre-war elections in 1939 the Arrow Cross gained 29 seats, making it the second largest party in Parliament. The party was re-named to Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement in 1942. After Regent Miklós Horthy’s attempt to extricate fr...

  16. Leo Ansbacher

    • ליאו אנסבכר
    • אנסבכר ליאו

  17. Restitution and Reparations Branch of OMGUS

    • המחלקה להשבת הרכוש היהודי בגרמניה של OMGUS

    Department of the Office of Military Government of the United States (OMGUS) created with the function of locating and returning material to countries from which claimed property had been looted by the Nazis during World War II.

  18. Office of Military Government, United States

    • Amt der Militärregierung für Deutschland (U.S.)
    • OMGUS

    1946-01-01 / 1949-12-05

    The Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS; German: Amt der Militärregierung für Deutschland (U.S.)) was the United States military-established government created shortly after the end of hostilities in occupied Germany in World War II. Under General Lucius D. Clay, it administered the area of Germany and sector of Berlin controlled by the United States Army. The Allied Control Council comprised military authorities from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and France. Though created on January 1, 1946, OMGUS previously reported to the U.S. Group Control Coun...

  19. Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone

    • CHC

    1945-12/1948

    The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone was founded in 1945-12 in Munich. The CHC opened about 50 branches in the various Displaced Persons camps in Germany. Testimonies were recorded and questionnaires distributed. Attempts were also made to secure information about Jewish Communities from German sources, both by acquiring Nazi documentation and by distributing questionnaires among the Landraete (regional councils) in Germany. After three years the CHC was dissolved.

  20. National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)

    • DEGOB - Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság
    • DEGOB