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  1. Politieke Recherche Afdeling

    • PRA

    Founded in 1945-03-01

    The aim of the Politieke Recherche Afdeling was to detect and investigate 'bad elements' in Dutch society during the German occupation. The Politieke Opsporingdienst started with this aim in 1945-02, which was renamed the Politieke Recherche Afdeling in 1945-03-01.

  2. Hilfswillige

    • Volunteer helpers

    Hilfswillige were auxiliary units of Soviet POWs, Cossack, Belorussian, Tartar, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian residents in German-occupied areas. They volunteered, or were drafted, into the Wehrmacht. The Hilfswillige were issued German uniforms and received a pay scale comparable to native Germans. They also aided the Einsatzgruppen in the murder of the Jews.

  3. Cagoule

    • Secret Committee of Revolutionary Action

    The Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire was founded in 1936 by Eugène Deloncle from members of the secret, extreme Cagoule which had been backed, as was the MSR, by Eugène Schueller, an anti-Semite.

  4. Żydowska Agencja Prasowa

    The head of Żydowska Agencja Prasowa was the writer Horace Safrin. Żydowska Agencja Prasowa continued to publish daily bulletins and printed information from Polish and other internationally newspapers.

  5. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt München

    • SD Leitabschnitt München

    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 München.

  6. Jewish Welfare Committee of the City of Warsaw

    • ZKOM

    The Zydowskie Towarzystwo Opieki Spolecznej (Jewish Social Welfare Association) was made subordinate to the Jewish Welfare Committee of the City of Warsaw, the institution licensed by the Germans. In 1941-11 ZTOS lost its autonomy and under a new name – Zydowska Opieka Spoleczna (Jewish Social Welfare) – became a section of the ZKOM.

  7. NSDAP Gauschulungsamt

    • Gau Schooling Office

    The German Reich was divided into more than 40 Party Gaus of the NSDAP, at the head of which was a Gau leader. The NSDAP Gauschulungsamt was under direction of dr. Heinrich Hoffer.

  8. Żydowski Komitet Opieki Społecznej

    • ŻKOS

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Centraal Voorlichtingsbureau

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Reichskanzlei

    • Reich Ministery of Justice

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

  19. Polizei Bataillon

  20. 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.