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  1. Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen

    • Netherlands Joint-Stock Company for the Liquidation of Businesses
    • NAGU

    1941/1945

    Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen in The Hague was specially entrusted with the valuation of confiscated business or with finding suitable buyers or administrators and mainly interested in large concerns. NAGU was a kind of accountants' office, composed of four separate audit bureaus. The price generally bore no relation to the real value. Within the looting structure, quite a few 'Verwalter' behaved like robbers on their own account.

  2. Organization Todt

    • Todt Organization
    • OT

    Organization Todt formed Nazi-sponsored, paramilitary labor battalions. This German military organization was dedicated to heavy construction and utilized concentration camp labor. OT also operated in the rearguard of Einsatzgruppen activity. It was headed by Dr. Fritz Todt until his death in 1942.

  3. Stichting 1940-1945

    1944-10-13/present

    Stichting 1940-1945 provides moral, mental and financial support for Dutch persons or groups who participated in the resistance during the Second World War.

  4. Reserve Polizeibataillon

    • Reserve Police battalion

    Reserve Police battalions were initially formed for local duties in Germany. Prewar recruits were volunteers, but wartime recruits were conscripts, older than army recruits. Their training was minimal, and they were not trained at all for mass murder. Police battalion 101 has been analyzed by Browning (1993) and Goldhagen (1996). They say that most of the rank-and-file were Hamburg conscripts, with an average age of 36. Of the 100 whose marital status is known, 99 were married and 72 had children. The most common previous occupation had been policeman, and most of the others had been worker...

  5. Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP

    • Supreme Nazi Party Court
    • OPG

    1926/1944

  7. Nederlandse Spoorwegen

    • Dutch Railways
    • NS

    1937/present

    The Nederlandse Spoorwegen continued its activities during the Second World War until the railway strike in 1944-09.

  8. Nástupists

    Vojtech Tuka, the prime minister and foreign minister of wartime Slovakia, was head of the Nástupists, the radical wing of the Hlinkova slovenská l’udová strana.

  9. Deutsche Reichsbahn

    • German State Railroad

    The system and administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn played a vital role in the implementation of the Final Solution. The Polish Ostbahn was forced to assist in the destruction of European Jewry and other nations, that is, France, Hungary, and Slovakia signed cooperative rail agreements. Initially each transport carried 2,000 deportees; however, as the war turned against the Germans, trains carried up to 5,000 Jews. The trains traveled at an average speed of 31 mph and were often sidetracked. Armed guards made escape difficult. The freight cars were shut tight with little or no provisio...

  10. Einsatzkommando 12

    • EK 12

    1942/1943

    Mobile killing squads of Einsatzgruppe D.

  11. Bundesgerichtshof

    • Federal Court of Justice
    • BGH

    The Bundesgerichtshof is Germany's highest court of general, i.e. civil and criminal, jurisdiction which, at the lower instances, is exercised by the local, regional and higher regional courts that come under the authority of the German federal states. Around 75 percent of all German judges are working in this field. The Staatsgerichtshof (State Court of Justice), which from 1920 had been integrated organizationally and in terms of personnel with the Reichsgericht, was replaced in 1934 by the infamous Volksgerichtshof (People's Court of Justice) which, under its president Roland Freisler, s...

  12. SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt

    • Race and Resettlement Main Office
    • RuSHA

    The SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt was a Nazi racial research office. This bureau compiled genealogical tables including racial statistics of families in Germany and the Netherlands. The RuSHA selected candidates for ‘Germanization’ and kidnapped Polish children who were designated for the Lebensborn, Fountain of Life. It also determined Aryan fitness of ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) who wanted to settle in conquered Polish territory and checked the purity of the SS and their mates.

  13. Narodno sotzialno dvizhenie

  14. Witte Brigade

    • Brigade Blanche

    The Witte Brigade was a resistance organization of Liberal origin, and active in Antwerp.

  15. Nationale Koningsgezinde Beweging

    • Mouvement Royal Belge
    • MRB

    The Nationale Koningsgezinde Beweging, a royalist resistance movement, was forbidden in 1941-07. After this prohibition the NKB attracted many militaries and Catholics.

  16. Obszczestwo Razprostranienija Truda Sredi Jewrejew

    • ORT

    Founded in 1880

    The Obszczestwo Razprostranienija Truda Sredi Jewrejew was an association founded in 1880 in Russia, and operating in Poland from 1921 under the name Organizacja Rozwoju Twórczości Przemysłowej, Rzemieślniczej I Rolniczej wśród Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce. It dealt with craftsmen’s training, running schools and training courses.

  17. Swiss government

    At the start of the Second World War the Swiss government tried to maintain trade relations with all belligerents. In order to safeguard vital supplies and channel them through the blockades and economic warfare restrictions applied by both sides, it had to conduct complicated negotiations with its economic partners – not only Germany but also the Allies.

  18. Pionier Bataillon

  19. Kolonne Henneicke

    • The Henneicke Column

    1943-03/1943-09

    In 1943-03 reporting a Jew in hiding to the occupier was rewarded with 7.50 Dutch guilders. The Kolonne Henneicke became notorious - a group of violent Jew hunters under leadership of Wim Henneicke who worked for the Hausraterfassung - an organization that was responsible, among other things, for clearing the homes of deported Jews. He put together a group of more than 50 men, who in less than a year reported more than 8,000 Jews.

  20. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Inland

    • OKW Abteilung Inland

    The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Inland was engaged in general military-political matters. Abteilung Inland's principal nodes in the field were the intelligence officers stationed in the staff of every home command.