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  1. Circuit Garel

    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-...

  2. Parti Populaire Française

    • PPF

    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.

  3. Einsatzgruppe IV

    • EG IV

    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 ...

  4. Obóz Narodowo Radykalny

    • Radical Nationalist Party
    • ONR

    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.

  5. Organizacja Rozwoju Twórczości Przemysłowej Rzemieślniczej i Rolniczej wśród Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce

    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.

  6. Reichswirtschaftskammer

    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.

  7. Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft

    • IG Farben

    1925-12-09/1945-11-30

    Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft had been founded on 1925-12-09, with the recording of the merger contract between the German chemical companies Bayer, BASF, Agfa, Griesheim-Elektron, Weiler-ter Meer and Hoechst. IG Farben became the sinister symbol of the economic power of the Nazis during World War Two. The production included poison gases and foreign, often forced and sometimes enslaved, laborers made up one-half of the 333.000 personnel. Because of the company’s entanglement and active participation in the crimes of the Nazi regime the Allies ‘decartelized’ IG ...

  8. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt

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

    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.

  9. Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition

    Abolished in 1943

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

  10. Selbstschutz

    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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  12. Einsatzgruppe E

    • Einsatzgruppe Kroatien
    • EG E

    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.

  13. Commission des Camps des Oeuvres Israélites d’Assistance aux Réfugiés

    • Commission des Camps

    Founded in 1941-01

    Dr. Joseph Weill took part in the creation of the Commission des Camps des Oeuvres Israélites d’Assistance aux Réfugiés in 1941-01. He tried to made immediate improvements in the atrocious internment conditions in close conjunction with the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants.

  14. Hilfsverein für jüdische Flüchtlinge im Shanghai

    • HIJEFS

    Founded in 1941

    The Hilfsverein für jüdische Flüchtlinge im Shanghai was founded by Recha Sternbuch and her husband, Isaac, in 1941, with the objective of assisting rabbinical students who had fled to the Far East. It soon expanded its activities to include the provision of passports to non-religious Jews from many European countries and changed its name to Hilfsverein für jüdische Flüchtlinge im Ausland.

  15. SS-Totenkopfverbände

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

  16. Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps

    • National Socialist Motor Corps
    • NSKK

    1931-04-20/1945

    The aim of the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps was to educate its members in motoring skills. They were mainly trained in the operation and maintenance of high performance motorcycles and automobiles. The NSKK also functioned as a roadside assistance group in the mid 1930s.

  17. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj

    • The Government Delegation for Poland

    1940/1945

    Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj was a conspiratorial agency in the country of the Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie (Polish Government-in-Exile) from 1940 till 1945. It was part of the Polskie Państwo Podziemne (Polish Underground State). It organized civil administration and was preparing the conditions for the polish government for assuming power in liberated Poland. It also created local administration, secret schools, recorded losses and crimes against the Polish nation, developed plans for the future of Western and Northern territories and organized “Żego...

  18. Service Social d'Aide aux Emigrants

    • Association of Social Assistance for Migrants
    • SSAE

    Founded in 1921

    The Service Social d'Aide aux Emigrants organized the delivery of social services to migrants through its local branches.

  19. Reichsschrifttumskammer

    • RSK

    Founded in 1933-09-22

    The Reichsschrifttumskammer sought to control all aspects of the world of literature. Founded as part of Josef Goebbels's Reichskulturkammer under a Law of 1933-09-22, the Reichsschrifttumskammer kept watch not only over writers and what they wrote, but over the Germany book industry as a whole: publishing houses, literary agencies, and libraries also fell under its auspices.

  20. Les Chantiers de la Jeunesse

    • The Chantiers

    Founded in 1940-07

    Les Chantiers de la Jeunesse was founded in 1940-07 and headed by General Joseph de La Porte du Theil, who had been an active figure in the Boy Scout movement and who used the Boy Scout motto, ‘be prepared’. This organization was originally intended as an emergency measure to find work for six months for men who had been demobilized or were of draft age. Over 92,000 had been called up for military service in 1940-05, but the war ended before they were a part of a military unit. In a sense the Chantiers replaced conscription. The Chantiers became a mandatory body under the authority of the S...