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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. Reichsführung SS

    • RFSS

    The Reichsführung SS was headed by Heinrich Himmler.

  2. Reichsgericht of Leipzig

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

  3. Turkish government

    In examining the decision-making process in the Turkish government during the Second World War years two factors must be kept in mind; the government during this period was authoritarian, and power was very centralized. The Grand National Assembly, the Parliamentary Group of the CHP, the Cabinet and Inönü. This power structure included practically all the politically active elements in Turkish society. Yet despite Italy’s entry into the war in 1940-06 and the subsequent Axis campaign in the Balkans, which culminated in Germany’s invasion and defeat of Yugoslavia and Greece in spring 1941, T...

  4. BAYER

    Founded in 1863

    BAYER is a chemical and pharmaceutical company. During the Second World War foreign and forced laborers from the occupied countries of Europe were brought to work in Leverkusen, Dormagen, Elberfeld and Uerdingen - and throughout German industry as a whole - to maintain output levels. At times during the war, these laborers accounted for up to one third of the workforce. Concentration camp prisoners were not employed in the Lower Rhine sites. BAYER produced Cyklon B.

  5. Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata

    • Guardians of the Advancement of Bulgarian National Spirit

    A coup in 1935 created a monarchial dictatorship under King Boris III modeled along Italian Fascist lines. A number of anti-Semitic groups, such as the Ratnitsi Napreduka na Bulgarshtinata flourished under the monarchical dictatorship.

  6. Secrétariat Général à la Jeunesse

    • General Secretariat of Youth
    • SGJ

    Founded in 1940-09

    The government of Vichy created the Secrétariat Général à la Jeunesse in 1940-09. Over time, it evolved from a relatively open and fluid ideology to one requiring formal membership through defined criteria.

  7. Ustaska Narodna Sluzba

    • UNS

  8. Organisation Juive de Combat

    • Jewish Fighting Organization
    • OJC

    Founded in 1944-06

    The Éclaireurs Israélites de France (EIF) and the Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste (MJS) formed in 1944-06 the Organisation Juive de Combat, a body of about 400 fighters. This group had links with both communist and non-communist resistance units.

  9. Armée Secrète

    • Secret Army
    • AS

    Founded in 1942-10

  10. Police des Questions Juives

    • Police for Jewish Affairs
    • PQJ

    1941-10-19/1942-08-05

    In 1941-10 the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives was reorganized and its role became more aggressive with the creation of the Police des Questions Juives as a unit within it. Not a part of the regular police, and including rogues and pimps from Pigalle in Paris, the PQJ, though it had no legal power to make arrests, specialized in hunting down Jews, both searching and stealing from them, and acting as guards in the internment camps, where they stole jewelry, watches, rings and money. A brutal, violent, and corrupt group, it was transformed on 1942-08-05 into the Section d’Enquête et...

  11. Gebietskommissariat

    • District Commissariat

    The Gebietskommissariat was the lowest level of the German civil administration in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union.

  12. General Kommando

    • General command
    • GK

  13. Consiliul de Patronaj a Operelor Sociale

    • Social Works Council

    On 1943-08-26, the Council of Ministers ordered that fees paid for exemption from forced labor be transferred to the Consiliul de Patronaj a Operelor Sociale.

  14. NSDAP Kreisleitung

    • NSDAP District leadership

  15. Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation

    • National Socialist Industrial Cell Organization
    • NSBO

    Founded in 1928

    The Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation was brought into being by Reinold Muchow in 1928.

  16. Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps

    • Comité de Nimes
    • CCAC

    Founded in 1940-11

    After 1940-10, the camp activities of the major Jewish welfare agencies were coordinated within the Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance under the leadership of Grand Rabbi René Hirschler. A month later, the Jewish central commission 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 Foun...

  17. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia

    • Committee of National Liberation of Upper Italy
    • CLNAI

    Founded in 1944-01

    In 1944-01 a supreme politico-military authority, the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia, was formed to coordinate the activities of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale and partisans. This body soon asserted its claims to power, not only against Germans and Fascists in the North but also against the official government and against the Allies. Eventually the Allies agreed to recognize the CLNAI as the legitimate political representative of the Resistance forces, and to entrust it with maintaining public order in liberated zones until an Allied Military Government could be set up.

  18. Aussenpolitisches Amt der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

    • Aussenpolitisches Amt
    • APA

    Founded in 1934

    Hitler actively encouraged the creation of party agencies which claimed expertise in certain fields of foreign policy. The Aussenpolitisches Amt der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei was established to institutionalize Alfred Rosenberg's aspirations to become the guru of Nazi foreign policy. This body also put pressure on German allies to carry out the Final Solution. For example, its diplomats exhorted Benito Mussolini, unsuccessfully, to deport Jews under Italian jurisdiction.

  19. Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement

    • Division of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
    • EJPD

    After Hitler seized power in Germany in early 1933, the Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement issued regulations, approved by the Federal Counsil (the head of the Swiss executive branch), under which the borders were to be kept open, but refugees in most cases were to be granted only temporary residence.

  20. Nationalsozialistischen Arbeitsdienst

    • NS Arbeitsdienst

    Founded in 1934

    The Reichsverband Deutscher Arbeitsdienstvereine changed its name into the Nationalsozialistischen Arbeitsdienst.