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  1. Student Christian Movements

    Comité Inter-Mouvements Aupres des Evacues was a protestant youth group created by the World Young Women Christian Association, the Young Men's Christian Association and the federation of Student Christian Movements in 1939-09.

  2. Einsatzkommando 11b

    • EK 11b

    1941/1943

    Einsatzkommando 11b was a mobile killing squad of Einsatzgruppe D.

  3. Ethniko Apelefterotiko Metopo

    • National Liberation Front

    Founded in 1945-04

    The procommunist Ethniko Apelefterotiko Metopo is formed in Greek Macedonia by local Slavs in 1945. In Skopje, the first issue of the Albanian-language newspaper Flake e vëllazërimit (Flame of Brotherhood) came out.

  4. Centralna Komisja Patronatów

    • CKP

  5. Union de la Jeunesse Juive

    • Union of Jewish Youth
    • UJJ

    Union de la Jeunesse Juive was a Jewish Communists' youth organization.

  6. Jewish Colonization Association

    • JCA

    Jewish Colonization Association, a Jewish migration association, was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society.

  7. Związek Walki Zbrojnej

    • Union for Armed Struggle
    • ZWZ

    In German controlled Poland the Polish underground in 1940 gradually became more tightly organized. General Sikorski in France took steps to bring all resistance forces in the homeland under the control of his government in exile. Since the beginning of the war, dozens of independent resistance groups had sprung up, mistrustful of any central control. Sikorski ordered the Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland), by far the largest of the underground organizations, to transform itself into the central organ of military resistance under the name of Związek Walki Zbrojnej....

  8. Einsatzkommando 1/I

    • EK 1/I

    Einsatzkommando 1/I, Einsatzkommando 1 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.

  9. Einsatzkommando 4/I

    • EK 4/I

    Einsatzkommando 4/I, Einsatzkommando 4 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.

  10. Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt

    • Security Service Main Office
    • SD-Hauptamt

    Founded in 1939

    The Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt became part of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in 1939.

  11. Sonderstab F

    • Special Staff F

    A special military mission called Sonderstab F, after its commander General Felmy, was sent to Iraq in 1941-05.

  12. Allgemeines Wehrmachtsamt

    • General Armed Forces Office
    • AWA

    The Allgemeines Wehrmachtsamt was a special administrative department under the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. This organization was responsible for matters concerning Army personnel, training and equipment, while also responsible for the administration and operation of prisoner of war camps.

  13. Einsatzkommando 3/I

    • EK 3/I

    Einsatzkommando 3/I, Einsatzkommando 3 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.

  14. Reichsgesundheitsamt

  15. Sicherheitsdienst Hauptaußenstelle

    • SD Hauptaußenstelle

  16. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Stettin

    • SD Leitabschnitt Stettin

    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 Stettin.

  17. Politieke Recherche Afdeling

    • PRA

    Founded in 1945-03-01

    The aim of the Politieke Recherche Afdeling was to detect and investigate 'bad elements' in Dutch society during the German occupation. The Politieke Opsporingdienst started with this aim in 1945-02, which was renamed the Politieke Recherche Afdeling in 1945-03-01.

  18. Hilfswillige

    • Volunteer helpers

    Hilfswillige were auxiliary units of Soviet POWs, Cossack, Belorussian, Tartar, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian residents in German-occupied areas. They volunteered, or were drafted, into the Wehrmacht. The Hilfswillige were issued German uniforms and received a pay scale comparable to native Germans. They also aided the Einsatzgruppen in the murder of the Jews.

  19. Cagoule

    • Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action

    The Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire was founded in 1936 by Eugène Deloncle from members of the secret, extreme Cagoule which had been backed, as was the MSR, by Eugène Schueller, an anti-Semite.

  20. Żydowska Agencja Prasowa

    The head of Żydowska Agencja Prasowa was the writer Horace Safrin. Żydowska Agencja Prasowa continued to publish daily bulletins and printed information from Polish and other internationally newspapers.