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Founded in 1934-01-24

The NSDAP Hauptamt Wissenschaft was part of Beauftragten des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP, which was founded in 1934.

• Polish Underground State

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1939/1945

Polskie Państwo Podziemne was the general conspiracy institution and state body in occupied Poland. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj was part of Polskie Państwo Podziemne.

• KMOF

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• German Council of Municipalities
• DGT

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The Deutscher Gemeindetag was the primary representative body for municipal governments nationally. It has been viewed as either a means for the authoritarian regulation of municipal administration in a centralized chain of command, or, going back to 1933, as a paralyzed by the Reichsinnenministerium in its capacity to organize local self-government.

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1935/1945

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• Updated 7 years ago

Founded in 1943

Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe D, established in 1943. Sonderkommando 10b, assigned to the 3rd Romanian Army, took part in massacres of Jewish inhabitants of Czernowitz, Skadovsk, Feodosia, Kertsh and Dzhankoy.

• General Union of the Israelites of France
• UGIF

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Founded in 1941-11-29

In 1941-11-29 a Vichy Law established the Union Générale des Israélites de France, a national Jewish representation, with separate branches in the northern and southern zones. Among the various reasons given by Vichy for the establishment of this representation was the increased poverty resulting from diverse anti-Jewish measurements. At any rate this was advanced as one of the reasons by those Jews who chose to lead this Vichy creation. Indeed the problem was serious. The suffering Jewish population could only call on the network of immigrant organizations, operating semi-legally or illega...

• People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
• NKWD

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1934/1946

Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł was the central organ of security authority in the Soviet Union. NKWD was used by Joseph Stalin to pursue a policy of terror.

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1939-09-27/1945

Szare Szeregi was a code name for Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego in conspiracy. The goal of Szare Szeregi was to educate young people by the fight with the Nazis and give them the opportunity to get an education because learning in polish schools was forbidden.

• National Student Leadership
• RSF

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Founded in 1936

The Reichsstudentenführung, a student organization, was established in 1936.

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• Polish Government-in-Exile

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Founded in 1939

The Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie was located in France after the German-Russian occupation in 1939 and relocated to London after the fall of France in 1940. Several Jews were affiliated with this body, which also supported Żegota and the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy (Jewish National Committee). It received dispatches from the Armia Krajowa about the Final Solution. The Rząd Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na uchodźstwie was apprised of the fate of the Jews via a cable from the Polish underground in the summer of 1942. It urged the Allies to initiate a retaliation plan against German...

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The Reichskanzleramtes was renamend the Reichsministerium des Innern in 1919.

• French Forces of the Interior
• FFI

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Forces Francaises de l’interieur was an noncommunist French resistance movement, based in France, and loyal to General Charles de Gaulle. Inside France, they engaged in sabotage, espionage, and hit and run tactics against German and Vichy collaborationist forces. Their intelligence reports were especially important prior to the invasion of Normandy. Unlike partisans in the East, they were not anti-Semitic and accepted Jewish members.

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• Updated 6 years ago

Founded in 1933-03-03

The Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda was established in 1933-03-03.

• WRB

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Founded in 1944-01-22

The War Refugee Board was an ad hoc agency created on 1944-01-22 by Executive Order 9417. Its purpose was to circumvent obstruction by the U.S. State Department and rescue Jews. The impetus for the Board came from Josiah DuBois, John Pehle and Randolph Paul. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had been lobbied by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morganthau Jr. to create the Board. This proposal was opposed by Secretary of war Henry Louis Stimson and secretary of State Cordell Hull. In addition, rescue legislation was pending in the Senate, crafted by the Bergson Group. The Board was funded l...

• JCB

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1940-06/1943-09-29

The Joodse Centrale voor Beroepsopleiding was established in 1940-06. The Centre ran the different departments and offered courses and education as well. After 1940-05, when graduating students were no longer allowed to emigrate with a Palestine certificate (British immigration authorization), the Joodse Centrale arranged accommodations for them in Huize Voorburg near Elden. In 1941 the organization was absorbed into the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Counsil), and in 1943-09-29 it was disbanded.

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Founded in 1879

In 1879 the Reichsgericht of Leipzig became the Reichsgericht of the German Reich.

• Reich Association of Jews in Germany

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• Updated 9 years ago

1939-07-04/1943

This successor entity to the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden started 1939-07-04, charged by the Nazis as its major mission emigration of Jews from the Reich. In included all Jews as defined by the Nuremberg Laws, but its jurisdiction was confined to Germany and the Sudetenland. Austria and Bohemia-Moravia were excluded. The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland came under the direct control of the SS who gave it tasks that eventually led to the Final Solution. It continued to provide Jewish welfare and schooling. The emigration aspects ended after 1941-10-01. The Emigration sectio...

• Zveno government

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Founded in 1930

Zveno was a nationalist party, a small group of idealistic military officers and politicians that had an influence on Bulgarian politicians far out of proportion to its size. Zveno played a leading role in the Communist coup of 1944 in Bulgaria.