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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.

• IG Farben

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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 ...

• 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.

• Commission des Camps

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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.

• HIJEFS

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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.

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

• National Socialist Motor Corps
• NSKK

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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.

• The Government Delegation for Poland

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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...

• Association of Social Assistance for Migrants
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Founded in 1921

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

• RSK

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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.

• The Chantiers

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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...

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• Dutch Government-in-Exile

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Founded in 1940-05-13

After the invasion of Nazi Germany, Queen Wilhelmina der Nederlanden fled to the United Kingdom, London, on 1940-05-13. The Dutch Ministery followed the next day.

• Polish Committee of National Liberation
• PKWN

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Founded in 1944-07-21

The formation of Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego was announced on 1944-07-21, the day after the first red Army troops crossed the Western Bug River into German-occupied Poland. On 1944-07-26 the Soviet Union officially recognized the PKWN as the sovereign government of Poland. Two rival Polish governments now existed: the one in London recognized by the Western Allies, and the Soviet-sponsored committee in Lublin. On 1944-08-31, the Soviet-sponsored PKWN, Poland’s provisional communist government, stated that it would bring to justice Germans and Poles who had collaborated with the Ger...

• Military Commander of Serbia

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Founded in 1941-04-21

The German military government in Serbia was established by an order of the chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, of 1941-04-21. This order, effective on 1941-04-22 and implemented by a series of others, established the Militaerbefehlshaber Serbien as the chief of the occupation regime.

• Belgisch Nationale Beweging
• BNB

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The Mouvement National Belgique was a non-Jewish, wartime, underground movement formed by Belgian army officers.