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Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. Amtsblatt des Chefs des Distrikts Warschau im Generalgouvernement

    • ACDW

    Administrative measures for the Warsaw District were published in the Amtsblatt des Chefs des Distrikts Warschau im Generalgouvernement.

  2. Einsatzkommando Salonica

    • EK Salonica

    The Einsatzkommando at Salonica was instructed to treat the Spanish Jews in a way that could not give any case for serious complaints and ‘undesired propaganda’ in case they were later granted an exit permit to Spain.

  3. Centraal Voorlichtingsbureau

    K.F.J. Verboeket was head of the Centraal Voorlichtingsbureau.

  4. Eidgenössische Fremdenpolizei

    • Federal Police for Foreigners

    The parliament of Switzerland centralised the country's policy on foreigners in 1917 by creating the Zentralestelle für Fremdenpolizei. The resulting Eidgenössische Fremdenpolizei subsequently developed into a highly dynamic organization and became the main driving force of Swiss policy on foreigners.

  5. NSDAP Hauptamt für Beamte

    • Hauptamt für Beamte der Reichsleitung der NSDAP

    The mainactivities of the NSDAP Hauptamt für Beamte were inter alia the providing of political assessments for newly settled officials and the transportation and transfer in the pension legislation.

  6. La Sixième

    • The Sixth Bureau

    The Scouts’ underground organization, La Sixième, arranged shelter for Jewish children and teenagers in different places. They found convents and monasteries in which the youngsters could be hidden in the guise of students, staff members, and the like.

  7. Einsatzgruppe K

    • EK K

    Founded in 1941-06

    In 1941-06, before the attack on the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe K was active during the offensive in the Ardennen. 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.

  8. Bahnschutz

    • Railway protection

    In addition to the Gendarmerie and Schutzmannschaft, the Germans also employed further auxiliary police units to guard the railway lines, known in some areas as Bahnschutz units.

  9. Kubrat

    Kubrat was a facist organization, well connected with the monarchy and aimed to defend the foundations of bourgeois society after the national catastrophe brought about by the Great War.

  10. Reichskanzlei

    • Reich Ministery of Justice

    The Reichskanzlei was founded in 1878-05 as the Zentralbüro des Reichskanzlers.

  11. Polizei Bataillon

  12. Zentralstelle für Fremdenpolizei

    • Central Office of the Police for Foreigners

    Founded in 1917

    The parliament of Switzerland centralized the country's policy on foreigners in 1917 by creating the Zentralstelle für Fremdenpolizei. The resulting Eidgenössische Fremdenpolizei subsequently developed into a highly dynamic organization and became the main driving force of Swiss policy on foreigners.

  13. Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa

    • Polish People’s Action for Independence
    • PLAN

    Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa was a Polish underground group.

  14. Sonderkommando 7c

    1941/1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe B.

  15. German Evangelical Church

    In 1939 the five regional churches led by the ‘German Christians’ officially forbade ‘non-Aryans’ from being church members, telling pastors that if they wished to offer services for ‘non-Aryans’, such services could not take place on church property. The intensity of their efforts, and the daily tragedies with which those Confessing Christians working to help the Jews were confronted, were in marked contrast to the pronouncements of the official German Evangelical Church. After 1939, when emigration had become virtually impossible, Jewish Christians received even less support from their ch...

  16. Bund Deutscher Mädel in der Hitler-Jugend

    • League of German Girls within the Hitler Youth
    • BDM

    Founded in 1930

    In 1930, the Bund Deutscher Mädel in der Hitler-Jugend was founded as the official female branch of the Hitler Youth organization. Before the Nazi rise to power in 1933-01, the BDM did not attract a mass following. Membership expanded rapidly throughout the 1930s, until participation for eligible girls became compulsory in 1936. The BDM’s core constituency consisted of girls from fourteen to eighteen years of age, with a corresponding junior branch, the Jungmädel (Young Girls’ League), for girls aged ten to fourteen. In 1938, a third component, the Bund Deutscher Mädel-Werk Glaube und Schön...

  17. Ligue International Contre l’Antisemitisme

    • International League against Anti-Semitism
    • LICA

    Founded in 1928

    Created in 1928, the Ligue International Contre l’Antisemitisme fought against fascist gangs and clearly sought to ally itself with forces on the Left. The LICA was headed by Pierre Paraf and Bernard Lecache.

  18. 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.

  19. Expositur

    • Expo

    Expositur was a section of the Joodse Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) that acted as a liaison with the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung Amsterdam. At the Expositur the registration of exemptions from deportation (sperre) was processed. Employees of the 'Expo' had access to the Hollandsche Schouwburg. The organisation was headed by Edwin Sluzker, who was of Austrian-Jewish descend.

  20. Combat

    At the beginning of 1943, with the war at a turning point and Vichy repression escalating, the resistance became more coordinated. Three networks, Combat, Libération, and Franc-Tireur et Partisans, joined together to form the Mouvements Unis de Résistance in 1943-01.