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• EK 2/IV

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Einsatzkommando 2/IV, Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe IV, 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.

• Service for the Victory of Poland
• SZP

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The Służba Zwycięstwu Polski was the first large organization of the Polish anti-German resistance. Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz became the Commander-in-Chief of the SZP.

• SD Leitabschnitt Posen

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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 Posen.

• ZLOS

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• Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities
• MAZSIHISZ

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Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége is the representative organ of the local Jewry. Its highest level is the council, with 121 members from all around the Hungarian synagogues, and the rabbis. The MAZSIHISZ’s role is not only to keep up the Judaism, but to provide social services and to conserve the Jewish heritage and improve the traditional Jewish education.

• EK 2/III

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Einsatzkommando 2/III, Einsatzkommando 2 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.

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• Jewish Social Welfare Association
• ŻTOS

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1940-10/1941-11

Żydowskie Towarzystwo Opieki Społecznej was set up in 1940-10 to replace the independent Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna Komisja Koordynacyjna (Jewish Social Self-Help-Coordinating Commission) representing the social sector of the welfare institutions. The new organization was made subordinate to the Jewish Welfare Committee of the City of Warsaw (ZKOM), the institution licensed by the Germans. In 1941-11 ZTOS lost its autonomy and under a new name – Żydowska Opieka Społeczna (Jewish Social Welfare) – became a section of the ŻKOM.

• Hitler Youth
• HJ

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1926-07-27/1945-05-07

Hitler approved officially the establishment of the Hitler-Jugend on 1926-07-27 and placed under the Sturmabteilung (Storm Division). Between 1933 and 1945 that vast majority of German’s children were members of the HJ, the junior branch of the Nazi Party. Boys were taught the beliefs of National Socialism and trained for military service. Determining that by age ten children’s minds could be turned from play to politics, the regime inducted nearly all German juveniles between ages of ten and eighteen into its state-run organization. The result was a potent tool for the will of Adolf Hitler...

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George Garel was the owner of a small electrical appliance shop in Lyons. Garel established contact with Abbé Glasberg and decided to try his hand at smuggling out a group of children at a camp at Vénissieux near Lyons, who were on the point of being carried of to Drancy and Poland. On 1942-08-26, Garel and a few others cut the fence of the camp and took 108 children away on trucks to be dispersed among Christian homes and institutions. The Circuit Garel, as it was called, was swiftly organized. By mid-1943, Garel had four sub regions with their own commands, with at least twenty-nine full-...

• PPF

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Founded in 1936

A openly fascist party, the Parti Populaire Française, was founded in 1936 by Jacques Doriot. The PPF soon claimed a membership of about 100,000 drawn, in spite of a program that favored big business, from the lower middle and working classes, from some young intellectuals, and from a significant number of militants who came to it from parties of the left. Though Doriot tried to restrain his more exuberant followers, the PFF, became more overtly anti-Semitic and fascist. The PPF worked closely with the Gestapo.

• EG IV

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When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939-09, a special Einsatzgruppe was attached to each of the five German armies of the invasion force, with a sixth based in Posen. Einsatzgruppe IV was attached to the 4th Army. Each Einsatzgruppe was subdivided into Einsatzkommandos of 100 men. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens ...

• Radical Nationalist Party
• ONR

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Obóz Narodowo Radykalny was an ultra right-wing Polish underground group. ONR opposed the Polish Government-in-Exile and was rabidly anti-Semitic. Its newspaper, Ramparts, approved of the German genocide of Polish Jews. ONR units attacked Jewish partisans and Jews in hiding.

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Founded in 1921

Organizacja Rozwoju Twórczości Przemysłowej Rzemieślniczej i Rolniczej wśród Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce promoted and developed skilled craft and agriculture. It ran a school for youths and they provided courses for adults.

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The Reichswirtschaftskammer was superior to the Industrie- und Handelskammern, Bezirkswirtschaftskammern, Reichsgruppen and Wirtschaftsgruppen. The Reichswirtschaftskammer was located directly under the department of economic affairs and was headed by the Reichswirtschaftsminister.

• Supreme Command of the Armed Forces War Economy and Armament Office
• WiRü

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Founded in 1935

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt was founded in 1935 as an economic planning staff of the Reichskriegsministerium. The Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt' powers were confined to gathering statistical data or preparing economic intelligence on foreign countries. When the Reichskriegsministerium was abolished in 1938, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht took over the Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt.

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Abolished in 1943

The Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition was renamed in 1943 into the Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion.

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When the German Army moved through Poland, the Volksdeutsche population formed its own self-defense militia: the selbstschutz. These units were often too willing to help the Einsatzkommandos in their grisly tasks.

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• Einsatzgruppe Kroatien
• EG E

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1943/1945-05

Einsatzgruppe E was not able to withstand against the strong Jugoslavic partisan organizations. SS units, specially trained assassins, assigned terror tasks for the political administration in the Soviet Union and other eastern territories. The Einsatzgruppen worked behind the lines and murdered political opposition. The Einsatzgruppen murdered between 1.25-2 million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs.