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  1. Police des Questions Juives

    • Police for Jewish Affairs
    • PQJ

    1941-10-19/1942-08-05

    In 1941-10 the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives was reorganized and its role became more aggressive with the creation of the Police des Questions Juives as a unit within it. Not a part of the regular police, and including rogues and pimps from Pigalle in Paris, the PQJ, though it had no legal power to make arrests, specialized in hunting down Jews, both searching and stealing from them, and acting as guards in the internment camps, where they stole jewelry, watches, rings and money. A brutal, violent, and corrupt group, it was transformed on 1942-08-05 into the Section d’Enquête et...

  2. Gebietskommissariat

    • District Commissariat

    The Gebietskommissariat was the lowest level of the German civil administration in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union.

  3. General Kommando

    • General command
    • GK

  4. Consiliul de Patronaj a Operelor Sociale

    • Social Works Council

    On 1943-08-26, the Council of Ministers ordered that fees paid for exemption from forced labor be transferred to the Consiliul de Patronaj a Operelor Sociale.

  5. NSDAP Kreisleitung

    • NSDAP District leadership

  6. Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation

    • National Socialist Industrial Cell Organization
    • NSBO

    Founded in 1928

    The Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation was brought into being by Reinold Muchow in 1928.

  7. Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps

    • Comité de Nimes
    • CCAC

    Founded in 1940-11

    After 1940-10, the camp activities of the major Jewish welfare agencies were coordinated within the Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance under the leadership of Grand Rabbi René Hirschler. A month later, the Jewish central commission met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foun...

  8. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia

    • Committee of National Liberation of Upper Italy
    • CLNAI

    Founded in 1944-01

    In 1944-01 a supreme politico-military authority, the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia, was formed to coordinate the activities of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale and partisans. This body soon asserted its claims to power, not only against Germans and Fascists in the North but also against the official government and against the Allies. Eventually the Allies agreed to recognize the CLNAI as the legitimate political representative of the Resistance forces, and to entrust it with maintaining public order in liberated zones until an Allied Military Government could be set up.

  9. Aussenpolitisches Amt der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

    • Aussenpolitisches Amt
    • APA

    Founded in 1934

    Hitler actively encouraged the creation of party agencies which claimed expertise in certain fields of foreign policy. The Aussenpolitisches Amt der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei was established to institutionalize Alfred Rosenberg's aspirations to become the guru of Nazi foreign policy. This body also put pressure on German allies to carry out the Final Solution. For example, its diplomats exhorted Benito Mussolini, unsuccessfully, to deport Jews under Italian jurisdiction.

  10. Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement

    • Division of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
    • EJPD

    After Hitler seized power in Germany in early 1933, the Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement issued regulations, approved by the Federal Counsil (the head of the Swiss executive branch), under which the borders were to be kept open, but refugees in most cases were to be granted only temporary residence.

  11. Nationalsozialistischen Arbeitsdienst

    • NS Arbeitsdienst

    Founded in 1934

    The Reichsverband Deutscher Arbeitsdienstvereine changed its name into the Nationalsozialistischen Arbeitsdienst.

  12. Balgarska Narodna Banka

    • Bulgarian National Bank
    • BNB

    Founded in 1879-01-25

    The Bulgarian National Bank is established right after the restoration of the Bulgarian state, on 1879-01-25.

  13. Rockefeller Foundation

    The Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance met with various non-Jewish agencies working in the camps, such as Comité inter-mouvements aupres des evacues (CIMADE), the Young Men Christian Association (YMCA), the Quakers, various national branches of the Red Cross, the Secours Suisse, the Service social d’aide aux emigrants (SSAE), the Unitarian Service Committee, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others to form the Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps. The Rockefeller Foundation is a charity organization. Its central historical mission is "To promote the w...

  14. Communauté juive de Lausanne

    • Jewish Community of Lausanne
    • CIL

    Founded in 1848

    Communauté juive de Lausanne was founded informally in 1848 by four families.

  15. Palestina Amt

    • Palestine Certificate Office
    • Palamt

    Palestina Amt was a Zionist and a Palestine-based organization. This office was headed by Moshe Krausz, who was a member of Mizrachi, the religious Zionist Party, and a representative of Hashomer Hatzair, the extreme-left Zionist Group. Krausz distributed the valuable Palestine certificates, which enabled their bearers to enter Palestine.

  16. Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle für das GG

    • Jewish Aid Agency in the Generalgouvernement
    • JUS

    In the autumn of 1942, and later in 1943-03, there was an attempt to reactivate welfare activities under the name Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle für das GG with headquarters in Krakow under full German control, with Michal Weichert in charge.

  18. Staatspolizeistelle

  19. Polska Partia Robotnicza

    • Polish Workers’ Party
    • PPR

    1942-01-05/1948

    Polish communists were transferred from USSR to Poland to connect polish communistics parties. The Polska Partia Robotnicza was subordinated to soviet communist party and controlled by the Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). The leaders were: W. Gomulka, B. Bierut. It headed Gwardia Ludowa (Polish People’s Army), Armia Ludowa (People’s Army). When Red Army came to Poland, PPR let Sovietization of the country through terror. It merged with the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party) into Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Poli...

  20. Grenzpolizeikommissariat

    • Unit of Border Police