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  1. Reichskommissariat für die Festigung Deutschen Volkstums

    • German Resettlement Population Policy
    • RKFDV

    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.

  2. Stephen Samuel Wise

    Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949), the grandson and son of rabbis, was born in Budapest in 1874. When Wise was an infant, his parents emigrated to the United States. From a very young age, Wise aspired to be a rabbi, like his father. Wise completed his studies at Columbia University with excellence at the age of 18, and was ordained as a rabbi in 1893. He served as the rabbi in a number of communities in New York and in Oregon, and was a trail-blazer in the area of interdenominational cooperation in the United States. In 1902 he earned his doctoral degree from Columbia University. Wise began ...

  3. Generalkommandant der uniformierten Protektoratspolizei

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

    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...

  4. Former students of the Czechoslovak schools in the Great Britain

    • Bývalí žáci československých škol ve Velké Británii

    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.

  5. Hans Krebs

    Ethnic German politician. Born 1888 in Jihlava (Iglau). After WW I manager of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP)) in Czechoslovakia. 1925 to 1933 member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Fled 1933 to Germany and became member of the SS and 1936 member of the Reichstag. From 1938 to 1945 Regierungspräsident in Aussig (Ústí nad Labem). Sentenced to death by a Czechoslovak court and executed 1947.

  6. Zemské četnické velitelství Praha

    • Landesgendarmeriekommando Prag
    • Land Gendarmerie command Prague

    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.

  7. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London

    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.

  8. Československá vláda v exilu

    • Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile
    • Československá exilová vláda
      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...

  9. Erwin Weinmann

    Erwin Weinmann was a German medical doctor, SS-Oberführer and police colonel; in the Reich Security Head Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) of Group IV D (Occupied Territories) within the Gestapo (Amt IV). From January 1942 to July 1943 Weinmann was responsible leader of the Sonderkommando 4a (Sk4a) for the mass murder of Jews in Ukraine. Since summer 1942 he was BdS in Prague.

  10. Státní rada

    • State Council
      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.

  11. Národní soud (1945 - 1947)

    • National Tribunal (1945 - 1947)

    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.

  12. Ministerstvo sociální péče - Londýn

    • Ministry of Social Welfare - London

  13. Zvláštní dopisovatel Rostislav Kocourek

    • Special Correspondent Rostislav Kocourek

    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.

  14. Ministerstvo financí - Londýn

    • The Ministry of Finance - London

  15. Ministerstvo hospodářské obnovy - Londýn

    • Ministry of Economic Recovery - London

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

  16. Předsednictvo Ministerské rady - Londýn

    • Presidium of the Ministerial Council

  17. Lavoslav Schick

    • Lavoslav Šik

    Lavoslav Schick (Šik) was a Croatian/Yugoslav Zionist, Judaist, journalist and a lawyer. He was born on the 27th of November 1881 in Vienna. After the death of his father, his mother married again and moved with his new husband and her two sons, Lavoslav (Leo) and Otto, in 1891 to Zagreb (Croatia) – then part of the Habsburg Empire. Schick studied Law in Zagreb, Vienna and Budapest and worked as a journalist. Already at the end of the 19th century he affirmed himself as a Zionist. He organized youth meetings, supported the Association of the South Slav Academics Bar Giora, founded 1902 in V...

  18. Národní arijská kulturní jednota

    • National Aryan Cultural Union
    • Nationalarische Kulturvereinigung
    • NAKJ

    Antisemitic organisation founded in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia.

  19. Vlajka

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

    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.

  20. Ministerstvo vnitra - Londýn

    • Ministry of Interior - London