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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. "Dr. Theodor Herzl", Sofia

    Zionist organization in Sofia, Bulgaria

  2. 1-asis lietuvių policijos batalionas

    • Das litauische Schutzmannschafts- W-Bataillon Nr. 1
    • Lithuanian 1st Police Battalion

    The 1st Battalion which was located in Kaunas and was active in the mass murdering process of Jews in Kaunas and the periphery in summer and autumn 1941. The 1st Battalion's soldiers killed tens thousands of Lithuanian and foreign countries (Germany, Austria, Czech Republic) Jews. Since 20 December 1941 the Battalion was renamed to 13th Battalion and was active in Byelorussia.

  3. 11-as rezervinės policijos batalionas

    • Reserve-Polizei- Batallion 11

  4. 16-я 'Литовская' стрелковая дивизия

    • 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
    • Lietuviškoji 16-oji Raudonosios Armijos divizija

    The 16th Rifle Division was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. In the end of 1941 reformed and given the title 'Lithuanian', the division participated in several battles against Nazi Germany, including Kursk, Belarus, and the Baltic. It was disbanded at the end of the war, although it was briefly revived in 1955 before being disbanded once more. When the 16th Division was reformed after its destruction, it w...

  5. 1st Czechoslovak independent field battalion

    • 1. Ceskoslovensky samostatny polni prapor

  6. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius was established in July 1941 and existed untill July 1944. The institution was under the authority of Der Kommandant in Litauen des Wehrmachtsbefehlshabers Ostland. The Commandant handled almost all military and civilian affairs, except for the political. Also supervised activities of the committee of the citizens' of the Vilnius city and the area and activities of the Lithuanian auxiliary police.

  7. 9. SS Totenkopf-Sturmbann

    • 9. SS TOTENKOPFSTURMBANN

  8. Abteilung Feindvermögen

    1940-11-01/1945

    Main task of the Abteilung Feindvermögen was the implementation of the regulation VO 26/1940, the treatment of the expropriation of enemy assets.

  9. Abwehr

    • Self-defense

    1933/1944-02-18

    Abwehr was a German intelligence agency. Formed in 1933, it was attached to the foreign and counterintelligence department of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Its head, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was an opponent of the Nazi regime. After 1938, Abwehr became the center of a conspiracy against the Hitler government. On 1944-02-18, the Abwehr was dissolved into the SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt.

  10. Action Française

    • AF

    Founded in 1898

    The best-known and most influential anti-Semitic organization was the Action Française, formed in 1898 by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois as a result of the Dreyfus affair. The AF was both a political and a literary movement. The daily paper of the same name started in 1908 and reached a considerable part of the bourgeois, student and Catholic world. The paper, employing gifted writers, was relentless in its vituperative attacks, on both a general and personal level, on Jews, sometimes inciting violence.

  11. ADL - Anti-Defamation League

    • ליגה נגד השמצה

  12. Adolf Hitler Kanzlei

    • Privatkanzlei Adolf Hitler

  13. AEG

  14. Aeg Werke

  15. Aero Bank

  16. Agudat Ha-Noar Ha-Ivri - Akiva

    • אגודת הנוער העברי - עקיבא

    Zionist youth organization.

  17. Agudat Israel

    • Union of Israel
    • Aguda

    Orthodox, religious political party hostile to Zionism.

  18. Agudat Israel - Germany

    • אגודת ישראל - גרמניה

    Organization of Orthodox Jews in Germany

  19. Ahnenerbe

    • Ancestral heritage

    Founded in 1935-07-01

    Ahnenerbe was the name given to the Society for Research into the Spiritual Roots of Germany’s Ancestral Heritage. Founded by Heinrich Himmler, this pseudoscientific organization was politically motivated and rife with chicanery. The Society sponsored archeological research into early German history and forums on Himmler’s vision of Aryan origins. During the war, Ahnenerbe was involved by unethical ‘medical experiments’ on altitude, freezing and skull collections. Dr. Sigmund Rascher and dr. August Hirt were practitioners at Ahnenerbe’s Institute of Military-Scientific Applied Research.

  20. AIP - Association des Israelites Pratiquants

    Association of religious Jews in France directed by Rabbi Schneor Zalman Schneersohn