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  1. Mihály Kolosváry-Borcsa

    Hungarian journalist and extreme right-wing ideologist. He was the editor in chief of Függetlenség (extreme right-wing newspaper) from 1937 to 1945. In 1938 he was appointed to chief press officer of the Imrédy government. From 1939 until December 1944 he worked as president of the National Hungarian Press Chamber. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

  2. Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce

    • Ministry of Economy and Work
    • Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit

  3. Ministerstvo zemědělství

    • Ministry of Agriculture

  5. Ministerstvo sociální a zdravotní správy

    • Ministry of Social and Health administration

  6. Sippenamt

    Office in the German Ministry of Interior and responsible for racial declarations "Ariernachweis". Opened branches in Vienna, Luxembourg and Prague.

  8. Úřad policejního prezidenta Praha

    • Amt des Polizeipräsidenten Prag
    • Office of the Prague police president

  9. Policejní ředitelství Praha

    • Polizeipräsidium Prag
    • Prague Police Headquarters

  10. Ministerstvo průmyslu, obchodu a živností, Praha

    • Ministry of Industry, Trade and Crafts
    • Ministerium für Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe

  11. Instytut Pamięci Narodowej

    • IPN
    • Institute of National Remembrance

    In 1991, Poland’s new democratic government transformed the Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce into the Główna Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation), which is part of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance).

  12. Archives Managed by the Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Polskich

    • Head Office of the State Archives

  13. Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden

    • Aid Association of German Jews

    1901/1939

    German Jewish organization established in 1901 mainly to help Jewish communities in Eastern Europe that had fallen victim to pogroms and wars. It supported the creation of Jewish education and social welfare institutions in Eastern Europe, as well. After the First World War the association also helped Jews emigrate from eastern Europe through Germany to locations abroad. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the association began to provide assistance for German Jews who wanted to leave Germany for countries other than Palestine (those immigrating to Palestine were served by the Jewish Agency...

  14. HICEM

    Founded in 1927

    HICEM is established in 1927, with the goal to help European Jews emigrate. HICEM was formed with the merger of three Jewish migration associations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which was based in New York; Jewish Colonization Association, which was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society; and Emigdirect, a migration organization based in Berlin. By the time the Second World War broke out in 1939-09, HICEM had offices all over Europe, South and Central America, and the Far East. Its employees advised and prepared European refugees for emigration, including helping the...

  15. Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

    • Committee for Assistance to Refugees
    • CAR

    With the moderation of French policy toward the refugees as a result of the election of the Popular Front government in the spring of 1936, French Jewish refugee relief revived. At the initiative of the Joint Distribution Committee, a new committee, Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés, was established with Raymond-Raoul Lambert as its general secretary. Under Lambert’s leadership, CAR focused on providing assistance, including vocational retraining, that would enable the refugees to finds a niche in France. From the fall of 1938 until the outbreak of the war in 1939-09 the staff of CAR worked ...

  16. Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft

    Founded in 1920-03

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

  17. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

    • Supreme Command of German Armed Forces
    • OKW

    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.

  18. Dresdner Bank

    • Drážďanská banka

    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...

  19. Ulrich Greifelt

    SS-Obergruppenführer, lieutenant general of police, and convicted war criminal. After the beginning of the Second World War, Greifelt was appointed Chief of Staff of RKFDV (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums; Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood) in October 1939. He was found guilty of war crimes at the RuSHA trial at Nuremberg, sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in Landsberg Prison.

  20. Günther Pancke

    SS-Obergruppenführer; General der Polizei; from 1943 untill 1945 Pancke was Higher SS and Police Leader in Denmark.