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  1. Kovpak Partisan Group

    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.

  3. Reichsministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft

    Founded in 1920-03

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

  4. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

    • SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz

    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.

  5. Abwehr

    • Self-defense

    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.

  6. Thule-Gesellschaft

    • Thule Society

    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.

  7. Armia Krajowa

    • Heimatarmee
    • AK

    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 ...

  8. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Wien

    • SD Leitabschnitt Wien

    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.

  9. SS-Verfügungstruppe

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

  10. Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie

    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.

  11. Secours Suisse

    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.

  12. Comité Français de la Libération Nationale

    • CFLN

    1943/1944

    Comité Français de la Libération Nationale was a central political authority which supported France combattante during the Second World War. It was created in Algeria, chief of this organization was Charles de Gaulle.

  13. NSDAP Hauptamt Wissenschaft

    Founded in 1934-01-24

    The NSDAP Hauptamt Wissenschaft was part of Beauftragten des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP, which was founded in 1934.

  14. Polskie Państwo Podziemne

    • Polish Underground State

    1939/1945

    Polskie Państwo Podziemne was the general conspiracy institution and state body in occupied Poland. Delegatura Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej na Kraj was part of Polskie Państwo Podziemne.

  16. Deutsche Gemeindetag

    • German Council of Municipalities
    • DGT

    The Deutscher Gemeindetag was the primary representative body for municipal governments nationally. It has been viewed as either a means for the authoritarian regulation of municipal administration in a centralized chain of command, or, going back to 1933, as a paralyzed by the Reichsinnenministerium in its capacity to organize local self-government.

  18. Sonderkommando 10b

    Founded in 1943

    Special SS units of the Einsatzgruppe D, established in 1943. Sonderkommando 10b, assigned to the 3rd Romanian Army, took part in massacres of Jewish inhabitants of Czernowitz, Skadovsk, Feodosia, Kertsh and Dzhankoy.

  19. Union Générale des Israélites de France

    • General Union of the Israelites of France
    • UGIF

    Founded in 1941-11-29

    In 1941-11-29 a Vichy Law established the Union Générale des Israélites de France, a national Jewish representation, with separate branches in the northern and southern zones. Among the various reasons given by Vichy for the establishment of this representation was the increased poverty resulting from diverse anti-Jewish measurements. At any rate this was advanced as one of the reasons by those Jews who chose to lead this Vichy creation. Indeed the problem was serious. The suffering Jewish population could only call on the network of immigrant organizations, operating semi-legally or illega...

  20. Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich dieł

    • People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
    • NKWD

    1934/1946

    Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł was the central organ of security authority in the Soviet Union. NKWD was used by Joseph Stalin to pursue a policy of terror.