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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. Communist Party of the Soviet Union

    • KPSS - Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza

    Although the Communist Party on the eve of World war II continued to be officially depicted as the leading and directing force in Soviet society, Stalin’s victory over the opposition some years earlier had in reality reduced the Party’s position to that of one (albeit a very important one) of the regime’s several refular instruments of administration and control. Stalin himself, rather than the Party or any other organization, had become the central element in this system. And what Stalin wanted more than anything else was a system of rule that would protect and enhance his personal power p...

  2. Государственный архив новейшей истории Ставропольского края

    • State Archive of the Contemporary History of Stavropol Kray

    Archive was established in 1936 as Northern Caucasus (Severno-Kaukaskiy) Kray Communist Party Archive. It held party documents from the region, created from the time of Revolution in 1917. In 1942, when German armies were approaching Stavropol, 42.490 archival items were evacuated to the town of Ashkhabad in the Turkmen Republic. Most of the other documents perished during the war. In the end of 1943 the Archive returned to Stavropol. In 1982 the Archive moved to a new building, specially constructed for its purposes, where it is located until today. In 1991 former Communist Party archive b...

  3. Sonderkommando 11b

    • SK 11b

    1941/1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe C.

  4. Mestský úrad v Nitre

  5. Okresný ľudový súd v Sobrianciach

    • District People´s Court in Sobrance

  7. Bulgarian Jewish Community

    • Bulgarian Jewish Community

  8. Квестура Полиции города Тигина

    • Kvestura Politsii goroda Tighina

  9. Кабинет по администрации Бессарабии, Буковины и „Транснистрии”

    • Kabinet po administratsii Bessarabii, Bukoviny i „Transnistrii”

  10. World Jewish Congress

    • WJC

    1936/present

    The World Jewish Congress is an international organization whose mission is to address the interests and needs of Jews and Jewish communities throughout the world. Founded in Geneva in 1936 to unite the Jewish people and mobilize the world against the Nazi onslaught, the WJC is the representative body of Jewish communities and organizations in nearly 100 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe, across six continents. It seeks to foster the unity and creative survival of the Jewish people while maintaining its spiritual, cultural and social heritage.

  11. Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren

    • Říšský protektor v Čechách a na Moravě
    • Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia

    March 1939 to May 1945

    After the military Occupation on 1939-03-15 and the establishment of the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren the mainly Czech population was guaranteed autonomy. The last Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha stayed formally head of state. Real power was vested in the Reichsprotektor, whose task was to represent the "interests" of the German state. First Reichsprotektor became Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath. He was followed 1941-09-27 by Reinhard Heydrich, 1942-05-31 by Kurt Daluege and 1943-08-20 by Wilhelm Frick.

  12. Centrala Evreilor

    • Jewish Central Office in Romania

    1942-02/1944-12

    Centrala Evreilor, Jewish institution similar to a Judenrat, was set up in Romania in 1942-02 by Romanian leader Ion Antonescu, in response to German pressure. The Centrala replaced the Union of Jewish Communities, which had long represented the Jews of Romania. The Centrala, run by Nandor Ghingold, was forced to carry out all orders issued by the Romanian and German authorities regarding Jewish affairs. It was charged with carrying out two contradictory tasks: helping the German authorities organize the deportation of Jews to extermination camps in Poland; and serving the Romanian authorit...

  13. Maccabi

    • מכבי

    An international Zionist sports organization

  14. Полиция местечке Криуляны

    • Politsiya mestechke Kriulyany

  15. Полиция города Сорока

    • Politsiya goroda Soroca

  16. Квестура Полиции города Бельцы

    • Kvestura Politsii goroda Beltsy

  17. Prefettura di Firenze

  18. Luftwaffe

    • Armed Air Wing

    The Luftwaffe was the German Air Force in World War II, headed by Hermann Goering.

  19. Reichsluftfahrtministerium

    • State Ministery of Aviation
    • RLM

    Founded in 1933-04-29

    On 1933-04-29 the 'State Commissioner's Department for Aviation' was converted to the Reichsluftfahrtministerium with Göring as Minister and Milch as Staatssekretär.

  20. NSDAP-Reichsleitung

    • NSDAP Directorate

    The NSDAP-Reichsleitung in Munich strictly prohibited involvement by overseas Party cells in the domestic affairs of their host countries. Regulations were enacted that governed the conduct of the individual Party member abroad and specifically banned the public display of swastikas and the wearing of uniforms outside of closed meetings.