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  1. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hermagor

    • Hermagor District Commission

  2. Stadt Klagenfurt

    • City of Klagenfurt

  3. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Bregenz

    • Bregenz District Commission

  4. Landeshauptmannschaft Vorarlberg

    • Vorarlberg State Commission

  5. Landesgerichtliches Gefangenenhaus Wien

    • Vienna State Court Detention Centre

  6. Gestapo Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien

    • Gestapo Wien IIB4J

  7. Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Wien

    • Gestapo Wien

    The Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo, was one of the most unfamous police organisations in the 1930s and 1940s. The Gestapo was widely represented, for example with an office in Wien.

  8. Stadt Linz

    • City of Linz

  9. Hotel-Gesellschaft

    • (Linz) Hotel Company

  10. Stadt Salzburg

    • City of Salzburg

  11. Gaue Niederdonau und Steiermark

  12. Einsatzkommando 14

    • EK 14

    Einsatzkommando 14 operated in 1944-1945 in Slovakia, where in 1944-08 a revolt against the Germans broke out.

  13. Einsatzgruppe H

    • EG H

    In 1941-06, before the attack on the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe H was stationed in Slovakia. 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. Maglione

  15. Aktion Gildemeester

    • Gildemeester

  16. Caritas

  17. Rotta Angelo

    • Rotta, Angelo, 1872-1965
    • Rotta, Angelo

    09/08/1872

    01/02/1965

    Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest at the end of World War II. Saved many Bulgarian and Hungarian Jews through his diplomatic activity. Righteous Among the Nations’ 1997.

  18. Mussolini Benito

    • Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
    • Mousolini, Benito, 1883-1945
    • Duce, 1883-1945
    • موسوليني، بنيتو، 1883-1945
    • מוסוליני, ביניטו, 1883-1945
    • ...

    29/07/1883

    28/04/1945

    Prime minister (1922-43). First European fascist dictator. Executed by partisans in 1945.

  19. Ciano Galeazzo

    • Ciano, Galeazzo, conte, 1903-1944
    • Chiano, Galeazzo, Conte, 1903-1944
    • Ciano, Galeazzo, 1903-1944
    • Ciano, Galeazzo, comte, 1903-1944
    • Ciano, Galeazzo, conte
    • ...

    1903

    11/01/1944

    Italian Statesman. Married to Mussolini's daughter, fascist. Ambassador to the Holy See (1943), prisoner of the Germans in Bavaria, then in the Gestapo prison in Vienna. Charged with treason on Mussolini's instructions for leading role in 25.7.1943 coup. Shot dead in Verona's Scalzi prison.

  20. Pétain Henri-Philippe

    24/04/1856

    23/07/1951

    General and chief of the collaborationist Vichy-government during the WWII