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  1. 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.

  2. Pionier Bataillon

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  6. Nationalsozialistische Handwerks-, Handels- und Gewerbeorganisation

    • National Socialist Trade and Commerce Organization
    • NS-Hago

    The Nationalsozialistische Handwerks-, Handels- und Gewerbeorganisation was a Nazi party organization for trade and small business.

  7. Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation

    • AGFA

    Founded in 1867

    Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation was originally a chemical company.

  8. Comité Général de Défense des Juives

    • General Jewish Defense Committee
    • CGDJ

    Founded in 1943-06

    In France it was after the occupation still possible to save thousands Jews by unifying all of the Jewish forces. This objective led to the creation of Comité Général de Défense des Juives in 1943-06. All of the social and political organizations of immigrant Jews united in this committee around a common program. In the spring of 1944, the CGDJ joined with native-born Jews (represented by the Consistory) to form the Conseil Représentatif des Juifs de France (Representative Council of the Jews of France). For the first time in the history of the Jews in France they were brought together in o...

  9. Reichszentrale für Jüdische Auswanderung

    • Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration

    Founded in 1938-08-26

    The Reichszentrale für Jüdische Auswanderung was headed by Adolf Eichmann. It concentrated all the Jews of Austria in Vienna, set quotas and obligated the Jewish community to meet German demands for human chattel. This process was financed by wealthy Jews. These ‘innovative’ methods were a model for Reinhard Heydrich in Berlin who exported the concepts to the east. This office dealt with Jewish emigration matters until 1941-10, when Jewish emigration was prohibited. Eichmann’s staff became part of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt.

  10. Amitié Chrétienne

    1941/1943

    Amitié Chrétienne is in some ways the Catholic counterpart of the Protestant CIMADE. Amitié Chrétienne was founded in 1941 in Lyon to help Jewish victims. Furthermore this organization worked in the camps and in clandestine activity. Amitié Chrétienne was officially abolished in late 1943, but its adherents and other Catholic groups continued their resistance activities individually or through other groups, organizing channels of escape.

  11. NSDAP Hauptamt für Kommunalpolitik

    Founded in 1934

    The Hauptamt für Kommunalpolitik was established in 1934 from the in 1927 founded Kommunalpolitischen Referat der NSDAP.

  12. Départment fédéral de justice et police

    • Federal Department of Justice and Police
    • DFJP

    The Départment fédéral de justice et police has a wide range of responsibilities. It deals with socio-political issues such as the co-existence of Swiss and foreign nationals, asylum matters, internal security and the fight against crime. Marital status and citizenship issues are also just as much part of the DFJP's brief as corporate governance, gaming supervision, or the drafting of codes and instruments for international legal assistance and police cooperation.

  13. Comité d'Assistance aux Enfants Juifs Refugies

    • CAEJR

    The Comité d'Assistance aux Enfants Juifs Refugies was founded by Madame Goldschmidt-Brodsky, whose husband, Alfred, was an official of the Belgian Red Cross.

  14. Reichsarbeitsministerium

    Founded in 1919

  15. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Frankfurt am Main

    • SD Leitabschnitt Frankfurt am Main

    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 Frankfurt am Main.

  16. Rijksinspectie van de Bevolkingsregisters

    • State inspectorate of the population registers

    Seyss-Inquart proclaimed on 1941-01-10: all ‘persons of partial or complete Jewish heritage’ had to register. Dutch municipal authorities were instructed to enforce this measure, which coincided with the requirement that all Dutch people carry the new identity card. Jews had to complete and submit a questionnaire and received proof of registration, upon payment of one guilder. The registration forms were sent to the Rijksinspectie van de Bevolkingsregisters. Nearly all Jews completed the registration forms. Non-compliance was subject to up to five years imprisonment.

  17. Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste

    • MJS

    The Éclaireurs Israélites de France (French Jewish Scouts) and the Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste formed in 1944-06 the Organisation Juive de Combat, a body of about 400 fighters. This group had links with both communist and non-communist resistance units.

  18. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Stuttgart

    • SD Leitabschnitt Stuttgart

    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 Stuttgart.

  19. Allgemeine SS

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

  20. Einsatzkommando 2/I

    • EK 2/I

    Einsatzkommando 2/I, Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe I, participated during the invasion of Poland in 1939-09. During the invasion of the Soviet Union the Einsatzgruppen were not labeled with the number I, II, III, IV or V but with the character A, B, C or D.