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  1. Reichsjugendführung

    The main organization of the Hitler-Jugend was the Reichsjugendführung, with the Jugendführer des Deutschen Reiches as head of the organization.

  2. Niederländische Grundstücksverwaltung

    • Dutch Estate Management Organization

    1941-05-31/1945

    Niederländische Grundstücksverwaltung, a German body established at The Hague, was authorized to take over all Jewish properties, or else authorize non-Jewish persons to do so.

  3. Reichssicherheitshauptamtes-Amtes VII Weltanschauliche Gegnerforschung

    • RSHA-Amtes VII Weltanschauliche Gegnerforschung

    Franz Alfred Six was the chef of Reichssicherheitshauptamtes-Amtes VII Weltanschauliche Gegnerforschung.

  4. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Berlin

    • SD Leitabschnitt Berlin

    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 Berlin.

  5. Urząd do Walki z Lichwą i Spekulacją

    • The Central Office for Fighting against Usury and Speculation

    Founded in 1919-01-11

    Józef Piłsudski transformed the Wydział walki z lichwą żywnościową to Urząd do Walki z Lichwą i Spekulacją in 1919-01-11. The responsibility of this office was to fight with every form of usery and speculation.

  6. Lebensborn

    • Fount of Life

    Founded in 1935

    Lebensborn, a Nazi organization, was established in 1935 in an effort to reverse Germany’s dwindling birthrate and to increase the number of ‘racially valuable’ offspring. Instigated by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, the effort provided financial assistance and maternity care to the wives of SS men and also to unmarried mothers, a group that concerned Nazi racial hygienists and population planners. Lebensborn administrators encouraged unwed mothers to give up their infants after birth, and the organization managed both orphanages and adoption services that placed Lebensborn children with ‘d...

  7. Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna

    • Joods comité voor sociale zelfhulp
    • Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe
    • ZSS

    The Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna was set up with sections for: Finance, Clothes Collection, Emergency Aid, Sanitation and Housing for the Homeless. In addition, Local Committees have been set up in the various sections of Warsaw. In this way a fairly complicated and widespread system of public assistance has penetrated through every level and part of the Jewish public, and reaches into the most distant areas populated by Jews.

  9. Kadra Bezpieczeństwa

    1942/1944-04

    Kadra Bezpieczeństwa was an underground military organization. Korpus Bezpieczeństwa, an underground military organization, was renamed in 1944-11 into Kadra Bezpieczeństwa.

  10. Wehrkreiskommando

    • Military District Command

    The goal of the Wehrkreis system was to relieve field commanders from as much administrative work as possible while providing a regular flow of trained recruits and supplies to the field army.

  11. Légion Française des Combattants

    Joseph Darnand 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.

  12. Reichsminister der auswärtigen Angelegenheiten

    • Ministry of foreign affairs

  13. Schweizerischen Zentralstelle für Flüchtlingshilfe

    • Swiss Central Office for Refugee Relief
    • SZF

    Founded in 1936-06

    In 1936-06, the main relief organizations merged to form the Schweizerischen Zentralstelle für Flüchtlingshilfe in order to pool their energies and co-ordinate their stand vis-a-vis the authorities.

  14. Mouvements Unis de Résistance

    • United Resistance Movements
    • MUR

    Founded in 1943-01

    At the beginning of 1943, with the war at a turning point and Vichy repression escalating, the resistance became more coordinated. Three networks, Combat, Libération, and Franc-Tireur et Partisans, joined together to form the Mouvements Unis de Résistance in 1943-01.

  15. Deutsches Jungvolk

    • Young People
    • DJ

    Boys between 10 and 14 years old were indoctrinated into Nazi doctrine and anti-Semitism through the Deutsches Jungvolk, a youth organization.

  16. Repubblica Sociale Italiana

    • Italian Social Republic
    • RSI

    Founded in 1943-09-18

    On 1943-09-18, Mussolini announced the creation of a new ‘puppet’ state in northern Italy, the Repubblica Sociale Italiana, its capital in Salo.

  17. Rada Główna Opiekuńcza

    • Central Welfare Council
    • RGO

    1940/1945

    Rada Główna Opiekuńcza was a social welfare organization manned by Polish volunteers, and it was active in the Generalgouvernement from 1940/1945. The RGO was supervised by the German occupying authorities, but helped both Poles and Jews. The RGO was also in contact with the Polish underground. In 1941 one million people received aid from the RGO; in the fall of 1944, 1.2 million people were aid recipients.

  18. Armée Belge des Partisans

    • Belgian Partisans Army

    Resistance movement.

  19. Deutsche Revisions-und Treuhand A.G.

    • DRT

    1940/1957

    The main task of the Deutsche Revisions-und Treuhand A.G. was the management of enemy assets, of confiscating all the property belonging to the enemies of Nazi Germany.

  20. Unitarian Service Committee

    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.