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• Zveno government

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Founded in 1930

Zveno was a nationalist party, a small group of idealistic military officers and politicians that had an influence on Bulgarian politicians far out of proportion to its size. Zveno played a leading role in the Communist coup of 1944 in Bulgaria.

• Organizational Committee of Polish Jews in the USSR

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Founded in 1944

The Komitet Organizacyjny Żydow Polskich w ZSRR was founded under the auspices of the pro-communist Związek Patriotów Polskich (Union of Polish Patriots) in Moscow in the summer of 1944. The Komitet Organizacyjny Żydow Polskich w ZSRR consisted primarily of writers, journalists, actors and artists.

• Central Resettlement Office
• UWZ

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Umwandererzentralstelle was a German office that oversaw the expulsion of Poles from the Polish territories annexed to the Reich at the beginning of the Second World War and from the Zamosc province in the Generalgouvernement. The office also ran the transit camps in which these Polish exiles were held, and decided how to racially classify them. In 1942 the Umwandererzentralstelle was opened in Lublin and a sub-office was opened in Zamosc. These two offices, which had 30 branches all over Poland, were under the authority of the Higher SS and Police Leader of each region, and were supervised...

• YMCA

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1844/present

In 1844 twelve young men led by George Williams founded the first YMCA in England, London. Their objective was the 'improvement of the spiritual condition of the young men engaged in houses of business, by the formation of Bible classes, family and social prayer meetings, mutual improvement societies, or any other spiritual agency.' YMCA staff served Canadian Armed Forces and became one of only two organizations allowed to visit prisoner-of-war camps to ensure medical requirements were being met.

• SD Leitabschnitt Breslau

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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 Breslau.

• Jewish Social Self-Help-Coordinating Commission
• ŻSS-KK

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The Żydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna-Komisja Koordynacyjna was renamed the Żydowskie Towarzystwo Opieki Społecznej (Jewish Social Welfare Association) in 1940-10 and Żydowska Opieka Społeczna in 1941-11. This organization had a modest and ever more greatly reduced agenda (assistance for the hungry, care of deportees), but in reality it was one of the most important centers of community life in the ghetto. It also retained coordinating functions in relation to other welfare associations and supervision of the house committees and refugee centers.

• SS-HA

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Founded in 1935

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

• AJDC

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• Updated 5 years ago

1914/present

Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.

• DÖW

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1963/present

Former resistance fighters, victims of Nazi persecution and committed academics set up the Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes in 1963. In the initial phase, when DÖW staff felt constrained to provide proof of the historical contribution of Austrian resistance in the face of spiteful and hostile attacks, the most important task consisted in preparing documents and historical texts as the basis of historical research. At an even later date - in the 1980s - DÖW began to include studies on the murder of physically and mentally handicapped in its research program.

• Border Police

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The Sicherheitspolizei comprised the Gestapo (Secret State Police), the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police), and the Grenzpolizei (Border Police).

• Central Commission for Refugees
• CKU

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The Area Associations set up the Centralna Komisja Uchodźców with sections for welfare work, provisioning, kitchens, craft production, clothing, housing, individual assistance, sanitation, and finance. One of the tasks of CKU was to help deportees find work and income. The CKU also acted as an arbitration tribunal.

• PO

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• SD Leitabschnitt Hamburg

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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 Hamburg.

• EK 14

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• Updated 6 years ago

Einsatzkommando 14 operated in 1944-1945 in Slovakia, where in 1944-08 a revolt against the Germans broke out.

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• SD Außenstelle

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• EK III

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When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939-09, a special Einsatzgruppe was attached to each of the five German armies of the invasion force, with a sixth based in Posen. Einsatzgruppe III was attached to the 8th Army. Each Einsatzgruppe was subdivided into Einsatzkommandos of 100 men. 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...

• Solidarite
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• Updated 8 years ago

1940-08/1943

Solidarite was a secret resistance organization, formed by Jewish Communists in Paris after the German invasion in 1940-08. In 1941-01 Solidarite refused to join the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Welfare Societies, suspecting the Nazis would take control. In May almost 4,000 Parisian Jews were arrested, which took Solidarite and others by surprise. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June, Solidarite began to sabotage German industry. In early 1942 they opposed the Union of French Jews, claiming that its members were collaborators. At the same time Solidarite created the nation...

• Peasant Party
• SL

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Founded in 1895-07-28

Stronnictwo Ludowe was the largest political grouping in the Polish underground and was originally established in Rzeszów on 1895-07-28.

• Air Force Command

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Each Luftgaukommando controlled the administrative, ground organization, and supply functions within a certain district, and was also responsible for the Air Reporting Service and for coordinating the actions of fighter and Flak forces in air defense.