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  1. Einsatzgruppe zur besonderen Verwendung

    • Einsatzgruppe for Special Tasks
    • EG zbV

    Himmler unleashed the Einsatzgruppe zur besonderen Verwendung on the industrial areas in Upper Silesia and western Galicia in order to 'radically subdue the exploding Polish insurgency'. 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.

  2. Sauvetage de l'Enfance

    Founded in the 1920s

    Sauvetage de l'Enfance was a children's charity, founded in the 1920s.

  3. Bataliony Chłopskie

    • Polish Peasant Battalions
    • BCh

    Stronnictwo Ludowe (Peasant Party), the largest political grouping in the Polish underground, maintained military units known as Bataliony Chłopskie and insisted on retaining operation control over them. In principle the BCh supported the Związek Walki Zbrojnej, though they mistrusted the professional military establishment and suspected it of planning to restore the prewar regime. It partly integrated in the Armia Krajowa.

  4. Badische Anilin Soda Fabrik

    • BASF

    Founded in 1865

    Badische Anilin Soda Fabrik is a chemical company. During the war, many male employees are called up and replaced by women conscripts, prisoners of war and forced laborers from the occupied countries of Eastern Europe. Moreover, concentration camp inmates are put to work at Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft’s Buna factory in Auschwitz, commissioned on the orders of the German army high command in 1940.

  5. Area Associations

    The Area Associations set up the Centralna Komisja Uchodźców.

  6. Utrechts Kinderkomité

    • Kindercomité

    Founded in 1942

    The Utrechts Kinderkomité was established in 1942 by two students: Jan Meulenbelt and Rut Matthijsen. The Utrechts Kinderkomité, a resistance movement, tried to find hiding places in Utrecht for Jewish children.

  7. Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Prag

    • Gestapo Prag

    The Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo, was one of the most unfamous police organisations in the 1930s and 1940s. The Gestapo was widely represented, for example with an office in Prag.

  9. Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt

    • War Economy and Armament Office

    Founded in 1934

    The armed forces' Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt was founded in 1934, as an economic planning staff of the Ministry of War. The powers of the Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsamt were confined to gathering statistical data or preparing economic intelligence on foreign countries.

  10. Żydowskie Towarzystwo Kultury

    • The Jewish Cultural Society
    • ŻTK

    1947-02/1950

    The chief of Żydowskie Towarzystwo Kultury was David Sfard. The task of the ŻTK was recruiting people for the institution, in order to fight against the “ignorance” and stopping “the assimilation destructive to the Jewish nation”.

  11. Główna Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

    • Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation

    In 1991, Poland’s new democratic government transformed the Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce into the Główna Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation), which is part of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance).

  12. Légion Étrangère

    • French Foreign Legion
    • LE

    1831/present

    From the start the Légion Étrangère was designed to constitute a small professional corps specifically for oversea duties. The LE was to be part of the Frence army and placed under control of the war minister.

  13. Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond

    • Flemish National Leugue
    • VNV

    Founded in 1933

    Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond, a nationalistic and pro-Nazi organization, was founded in 1933. This new group would gradually absorb all the other Flemish nationalist party organizations.

  14. NSDAP Partei-Kanzlei

    1933/1945

    The Partei-Kanzlei was the head office of the NSDAP.

  15. Het Joodsche Weekblad

    • The Jewish Weekly

    The official organ of the Joodse Raad in the Netherlands was Het Joodsche Weekblad. Het Joodse Weekblad appeared for the first time in the spring of 1941.

  16. Jäger Divisions

    Jäger Divisions were part of the German army.

  17. Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP

    • Reich Propaganda Directorate of the Nazi Party
    • RPL

    The Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP included divisions for press, speaker training, mass meetings, culture, films and radio. Many offices existed at the Party's regional (Gau), city (Kreis), and in some instances at local (Ort) levels.

  18. Einsatzkommando 2/II

    • EK 2/II

    Einsatzkommando 2/II, Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe II, participated during the invasion of Poland in 1939-09. During the invasion of the Soviet Union the Einsatzgruppen were not labeled with the number I, II, III, IV or V but with the character A, B, C or D.

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  20. Rada Narodowa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

    • National Council of the Polish Republic

    Founded in 1939-12

    The Rada Narodowa Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej was established in 1939-12, in the wake of the German occupation of the country, by decree of the Polish president-in-Exile who also appointed its members. The council functioned as an advisory body to the president and to the Polish Government-in-Exile but which lacked executive powers.