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• Central Council of Jews in Germany

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1950-07-19/present

The foundation of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, along with the Constituent Assembly, took place in Frankfurt (Main) on 1950-07-19. The delegates were sent by Jewish communities that had already been established in the four occupied zones of Germany, which had been placed under American, British, French and Soviet administration. At the time of foundation there were still some 15,000 Jews living in Germany. A Directorate of four people took charge of the affairs of this umbrella organization. 15 representatives of the communities formed a board known as the Council. Frankfurt beca...

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1940/1944

Organizacja Małego Sabotażu „Wawer” was an underground organization which had about 500 participants mainly from Szare Szeregi. A. Kamiński was chief of Wawer. Their task was to make a propaganda action.

• Storm Troopers
• SA

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Founded in 1921

The Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, was formed in 1921. It initially comprised mainly German World War I veterans, militia members, and others opposed to both the democratic Weimer Republic and to the Communist Party. Its terror tactics against opponents increased the public visibility of the Nazi movement, both before and after Adolf Hitlers’s rise to power. Once the Nazi regime was established, it began to perceive the disruptive tactics of the SA as a threat. Hitler agree to the murder of the SA’s top leadership in the Röhm Purge, or, ‘the night of the long knive...

• LT

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Founded in 1942-07

Because of its fear that Doriot and the Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme would become too powerful, Vichy took it over in 1942-07, renaming it the Légion Tricolore. The military successes of the Allied landings in North Africa led to the Légion Tricolore being reconverted from an official to a political body, again being named Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme.

• Reich Ministery for the Occupied Eastern Territories
• RmfdbO

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On 1941-07-17, Hitler laid out the guidelines for the administration of the newly conquered eastern lands. Those areas not integrated directly into Reich, Romanian, or Finnish territory were to be placed under the Reichsministerium für die besetzen Ostgebiete under Alfred Rosenberg. This area was later subdivided into two Reichskommissariate, the Reichskommissariat Ostland (Baltic States and Belorussia) under Hinrich Lohse and the Reichskommissariat Ukraine under Erich Koch.

• Legionnaire Assistance

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The Ajutorul Legionar, a Legionnaire welfare bureau, distributed generous humanitarian assistance to movement members and ordinary Romanians. The movement’s efforts to improve the living conditions of the Romanians brought it great popularity.

• Zionist Organization of France
• OSF

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Founded in 1942-01-23

The Organisation Sioniste de France financed and encouraged the so-called hakhshara (agricultural preparation) work, which meant setting up agricultural worksites, but in view of preparing future emigrants to Palestine.

• Jewish Bund

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The Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Polyn un Rusland became involved in labor organization and Jewish political activity. This and other developments emboldened many Jews to become more aggressive in their response to the violence and discrimination.

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Abolished in 1919-01-11

Józef Piłsudski transformed the Wydział walki z lichwą żywnościową to Urząd do Walki z Lichwą i Spekulacją in 1919-01-11.

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When the Great Patriotic War began, Sidor Artiomovich Kovpak was 54 years old. Due to his administrative skills and tenacity for getting things done, he organized a partisan movement in Ukraine named Kovpak Partisan Group. This group had over 1,500 personnel.

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Founded in 1920-03

The Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft was established in 1920-03 after the unification of the Reichsernährungsministerium and the Reichswirtschaftsministerium.

• SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

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The Sicherheitsdienst was an intelligence and surveillance organization, established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. The SD was widely represented, for example with an office in Kattowitz.

• Self-defense

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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.

• Thule Society

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Founded in 1917

The Thule-Gesellschaft was an occult society that combined occult racial philosophy with a belief in militant action. The Thule-Gesellschaft functioned outwardly as a ‘German Studies’ group. Despite its outer appearance, it was actively involved in the counter-revolutionary forces against the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which the Thule felt was dominated by Jews.

• Heimatarmee
• AK

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1942-02-14/1945-01-20

Subordinated to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London, Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland) and the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) formed on 1942-02-14 the Armia Krajowa. During the war it became an umbrella organization of resistance groups. Attacks were limited to confiscating supplies, burning food-quota documents, and, perhaps, crippling machinery. This modus operandi denoted the desire of the independentists to avoid German reprisals against the people and the destruction of property which, after all, was Polish and would be used after the ...

• SD Leitabschnitt Wien

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The Sicherheitsdienst was an intelligence and surveillance organization, established in 1931 under Reinhard Heydrich. Among its major tasks were monitoring real or imagined enemies of national socialism and reporting on the state of opinion among the German public. The SD was widely represented, for example with an office in Wien.

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The SS-Hauptamt was founded in 1935, it was the Supreme Command of the Allgemeine SS, SS-Verfügungstruppe and SS-Totenkopfverbände.

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• 1881
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Law enforcement agency founded in Hungary in 1881 based on the French model. Its primary tasks were to prosecute crime and maintain order in villages and rural areas. The police force was in charge of these tasks in towns. In 1944, the twenty-thousand-strong gendarmerie played a key role in the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews. With few exceptions, gendarmes fulfilled their duty mercilessly, and some of them even went beyond orders, committing excesses out of antisemitic zeal and sadism. After the war, the gendarmerie was declared a criminal organization and dissolved.

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The Commission Centrale des Organizations Juives d’Assistance 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 Foundation, and others to form the Comité de Coordination pour l’Assistance dans les Camps.