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  1. Sicherheitsdienst Abschnitt

    • SD Abschnitt

  2. Idisze Kulturorganizacje

    • Jewish Cultural Organization
    • YIKOR

    Founded in 1941-12

    Illegal cultural organization Idisze Kulturorganizacje was set up in 1941-12 with membership drawn from the Jewish Social Self-Help and the house committees. The aim of YIKOR was to propagate Yiddish culture and language among the inhabitants of the ghetto. It organized concerts, talks and lectures, and evenings about eminent figures in Yiddish culture and language. YIKOR supported clandestine schools with Yiddish as the language of instruction, set up an illegal library, and organized a competition for the best literary and academic work about the ghetto.

  3. Naamloze Vennootschap

    • The limited group

    The Naamloze Vennootschap, an underground group, saved the lives of 250 Jewish children during World War II. Most of the children rescued by the Naamloze Vennootschap were smuggled out of the Dutch Theater in Amsterdam, where they and other Jews had been assembled for deportation to the Westerbork camp. They were then taken from Amsterdam by different routes to safe havens in various areas, especially the southern Dutch province of Limburg. Nearly 50 of these children were accompanied to safe hiding places by Baroness Anne Marie van Verschuer, one of the groups’ members. The group also supp...

  4. Die Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP

    • Adolf Hitler's Personal Chancellery
    • KdF

    Die Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP stood directly under Hitler and was responsible for the organization of the NSDAP. The KdF was headed by Der Chef der Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP Philipp Bouhler.

  5. Reichskulturkammer

    • Reich Chamber of Culture
    • RKK

    Göbbels was designated president of the Reichskulturkammer. The creation of the RKK is an excellent example of the process Gleichschaltung. Göbbels had the power to exclude all those who were considered racially or artistically objectionable.

  6. Referat Żydowski Delegatury Rządu na Kraj

    1943-03/1945

    In 1943-03 Witold Bieńkowski alias Wencki created Referat Żydowski Delegatury Rządu na Kraj. His deputy was Władysław Bartoszewski. The tasks of this unit included: transfering funds to the Council for rescue actions and sending reports to the government in London.

  7. Komisja Koordynacyjna Żydowskich Instytucji Społecznych

    • Coordinating Commission for Jewish Social Welfare Institutions
    • KK

    Founded in 1939-09-14

    On 1939-09-14, the Komisja Koordynacyjna Żydowskich Instytucji Społecznych was set up as one of the parts of the civil defense of Warsaw. In the first months of the occupation the KK organized district offices, set up a Section for Care of Refugees and Those Made Homeless and a Section for People's Kitchens.

  8. Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme

    • Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism
    • LVF

    Founded in 1941

    The Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme, led by Jacques Doriot, Eugène Deloncle and Marcel Déat, was set up as collaborationist groups in mid-1941. Initially, about 10,000 volunteered to fight in Nazi uniforms against the Soviet Union. About 3,600 did actually fight, though poorly because of insufficient training, in 1942 on the eastern front. A reorganized LVF unit served in operations against partisans in eastern Europe. Because of its fear that Doriot and the LVF would become to powerful, Vichy took it over in 1942-07, renaming it the Légion Tricolore. The military su...

  9. Italian Government

    Italy’s Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, fell from power not once but twice, first in 1943-07, and again in 1945-04. Once the king had dismissed Mussolini as prime minister in 1943-07, his transitional government was unable to carry out its (totally unrealistic) plan for Italy’s safe and painless exit from the war. This failure meant both a prolongation of the war in Italy itself and the Nazi German restoration of Mussolini to nominal power in the north Italian Social Republic. The outcome was an aggravation of the civil war between Italians, the ‘war within the war’ which characterized ...

  10. Sonderkommando 1a

    1941/1944

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe A.

  11. Żydowskie Komitety Pomocy

    • ŻKP

  12. Service d’Ordre Légionnaire

    • SOL

    1941-12/1943-01-23

    The success of Joseph Darnand and his eagerness for action led him to set up in 1941-12 a paramilitary organization, Service d’Ordre Légionnaire, still nominally under the Légion Française des Combattants, to act against the ‘enemies’ of Vichy. Self-defined as anti-Semitic and anti-democratic in its 21-point program which members had to accept, it condemned Jews, Freemasons and communists and proclaimed a struggle ‘For French purity and against Jewish leprosy’. On 1943-01-23 the SOL was transformed into the Milice Française.

  13. Volkssturm

    • People’s Army

    Volkssturm consisted of German or Austrian civilians between the ages of 16-60, akin to local militias. These civilians were called upon to defend Germany by a decree from Hitler on 1944-09-25.

  14. Armee oberkommando

    • Army headquarters staff
    • AOK

  15. Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen

    • Non-Pure Aryan Descent

    1933/1936

    The Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen was founded in 1933, soon after the onset of state persecution of the Jews. In 1936, the intensification of Anti-Jewish policies led the Reichsverband der nichtarischen Christen and similar smaller organizations to form one large federation, which was approved by the responsible office of the Reich Propaganda Ministry in agreement with the Gestapo. The new association was called the Paulusbund.

  16. Slavomakedonski Narodnoosloboditelen Front

    • Slavo-Macedonian People's Liberation Front
    • SNOF

    1943-10/1944-04

    The Slavomakedonski Narodnoosloboditelen Front was a guerilla corps which was founded by Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós and the Greek Communist Party in the districts of Florina and especially of Castoria, with the aim of mobilizing the local Slavic inhabitants. The SNOF was active between 1943-10 and 1944-04 and involved, according to Yugoslav Macedonian historians, up to 15,000 volunteers.

  17. Einwandererzentralstelle

    • Central Immigration Office
    • EWZ

    Founded in 1939-10

    Heinrich Himmler created in early 1939-10 the Einwandererzentralstelle as the main processing office under the auspices of Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst. The EWZ included representatives of various Reich, party and SS offices involved in the classification and replacement of immigrants.

  18. Oberkommando des Heeres Generalstab des Heeres Operationsabteilung

    • Okh Generalstab des Heeres Operationsabteilung

  19. Einsatzkommando 1/III

    • 1/III

    Einsatzkommando 1/III, Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe III, 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.