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  1. Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna-Komisja Koordynacyjna

    • Jewish Social Self-Help-Coordinating Commission
    • ŻSS-KK

    The Żydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna-Komisja Koordynacyjna was renamed the Żydowskie Towarzystwo Opieki Społecznej (Jewish Social Welfare Association) in 1940-10 and Żydowska Opieka Społeczna in 1941-11. This organization had a modest and ever more greatly reduced agenda (assistance for the hungry, care of deportees), but in reality it was one of the most important centers of community life in the ghetto. It also retained coordinating functions in relation to other welfare associations and supervision of the house committees and refugee centers.

  2. SS-Hauptamt

    • SS-HA

    Founded in 1935

    The SS-Hauptamt was founded in 1935, it was the Supreme Command of the Allgemeine SS, SS-Verfügungstruppe and SS-Totenkopfverbände.

  3. Grenzpolizei

    • Border Police

    The Sicherheitspolizei comprised the Gestapo (Secret State Police), the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police), and the Grenzpolizei (Border Police).

  4. Centralna Komisja Uchodźców

    • Central Commission for Refugees
    • CKU

    The Area Associations set up the Centralna Komisja Uchodźców with sections for welfare work, provisioning, kitchens, craft production, clothing, housing, individual assistance, sanitation, and finance. One of the tasks of CKU was to help deportees find work and income. The CKU also acted as an arbitration tribunal.

  5. Partizanski Odredi

    • PO

  6. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Hamburg

    • SD Leitabschnitt Hamburg

    The Sicherheitsdienst was an intelligence and surveillance organization, established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. The SD was widely represented, for example with an office in Hamburg.

  8. Sicherheitsdienst Außenstelle

    • SD Außenstelle

  9. Einsatzgruppe III

    • EK III

    When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939-09, a special Einsatzgruppe was attached to each of the five German armies of the invasion force, with a sixth based in Posen. Einsatzgruppe III was attached to the 8th Army. Each Einsatzgruppe was subdivided into Einsatzkommandos of 100 men. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens...

  10. Stronnictwo Ludowe

    • Peasant Party
    • SL

    Founded in 1895-07-28

    Stronnictwo Ludowe was the largest political grouping in the Polish underground and was originally established in Rzeszów on 1895-07-28.

  11. Luftgaukommando

    • Air Force Command

    Each Luftgaukommando controlled the administrative, ground organization, and supply functions within a certain district, and was also responsible for the Air Reporting Service and for coordinating the actions of fighter and Flak forces in air defense.

  12. Rasseamt-SS

    Founded in 1931-12-31

  13. Einsatzgruppe F

    • EG F

    In 1941-06, before the attack on the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe F was stationed in Hungary. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.

  14. Jevrejski rapski bataljon

  15. Narodno Oslobodilačka Borba

    • National Liberation Movement of Resistance
    • NOB

  16. Reichswirtschaftsamt

    The Reichswirtschaftsamt, founded in 1917-10-21, was renamed into the Reichswirtschaftsministerium in 1919.

  17. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Düsseldorf

    • SD Leitabschnitt Düsseldorf

    The Sicherheitsdienst was an intelligence and surveillance organization, established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. The SD was widely represented, for example with an office in Düsseldorf.

  18. Nationaal Socialistische Beweging

    • National Socialist Movement
    • NSB

    1931/1945

    The Nationaal Socialistische Beweging was a Nazi movement, established by the Dutch nationalist Anton Adriaan Mussert. Its platform borrowed full paragraphs from that of the German Nazi party, but left out all paragraphs referring to Jews. Jews were able to join the NSB. In the 1935 Dutch provincial elections, the Nationaal Socialistische Beweging received eight percent of the country’s vote. This stunned the traditional Dutch political parties, who could not believe that the Nazi Party would gain so much support, and the Catholic church, who could not believe that so much of that support c...

  19. Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce

    • TSKŻ

    Founded in 1950

    Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce is the largest Jewish organization in the country. The main objectives of the association is the integration of the Jewish community, the activities in the area of Jewish culture and Yiddish language and to build good Polish-Jewish relations.

  20. Druzhyny Ukraninsskyh Natsionalistiv

    Roland Battalion had been formed in Austria. Together with Nachtigall, a volunteer Bulgarian battalion, the Roland Battalion is also known to the Ukrainians as Druzhyny Ukraninsskyh Natsionalistiv.