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  1. Grenzpolizei

    • Border Police

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

  2. Centralna Komisja Uchodźców

    • Central Commission for Refugees
    • CKU

    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.

  3. Partizanski Odredi

    • PO

  4. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Hamburg

    • SD Leitabschnitt Hamburg

    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.

  5. Einsatzkommando 14

    • EK 14

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

  7. Sicherheitsdienst Außenstelle

    • SD Außenstelle

  8. Einsatzgruppe III

    • EK III

    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...

  9. Union des Juifs pour la Resistance en l’Entr’aide

    • Solidarite
    • UJRE

    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...

  10. Stronnictwo Ludowe

    • Peasant Party
    • SL

    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.

  11. Luftgaukommando

    • Air Force Command

    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.

  12. Rasseamt-SS

    Founded in 1931-12-31

  13. Einsatzgruppe F

    • EG F

    In 1941-06, before the attack on the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe F was stationed in Hungary. 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.

  14. Jevrejski rapski bataljon

  15. Narodno Oslobodilačka Borba

    • National Liberation Movement of Resistance
    • NOB

  16. Reichswirtschaftsamt

    The Reichswirtschaftsamt, founded in 1917-10-21, was renamed into the Reichswirtschaftsministerium in 1919.

  17. Sicherheitsdienst Leitabschnitt Düsseldorf

    • SD Leitabschnitt Düsseldorf

    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 Düsseldorf.

  18. Jewish Agency

    • הסוכנות היהודית
    • JAFI
    • Jewish Agency for Israel

    Founded in 1921

    The Jewish Agency is established in Yishuv to promote Jewish self-government as a part of the British Mandate by the League of Nations. The Jewish Agency was reluctant to expends funds on rescue, arguing moneys should be provided by international Jewish communities. However, some funding was spent on modest rescue efforts. This group tried to rescue Jews in Transnistria, urged the Allies to save Jews from concentration camps, advocated the bombing of railway hubs, and brought orphans to Palestine. However, the Jewish Agency refused to fund the Europa Plan or ‘Blood for Trucks’.

  19. Nationaal Socialistische Beweging

    • National Socialist Movement
    • NSB

    1931/1945

    The Nationaal Socialistische Beweging was a Nazi movement, established by the Dutch nationalist Anton Adriaan Mussert. Its platform borrowed full paragraphs from that of the German Nazi party, but left out all paragraphs referring to Jews. Jews were able to join the NSB. In the 1935 Dutch provincial elections, the Nationaal Socialistische Beweging received eight percent of the country’s vote. This stunned the traditional Dutch political parties, who could not believe that the Nazi Party would gain so much support, and the Catholic church, who could not believe that so much of that support c...

  20. Consistoire Central des Israelites de France

    • Central Consistory of the Jews of France

    Founded in 1808

    Representative body of French Jewry, established in 1808, which was historically responsible for Jewish religious life in France. At first, the Consistoire leadership counseled French Jewry to cooperate with the anti-Jewish restrictions set in place by the Vichy government, in order to preserve their dignity. At the same time, the Consistoire protested against the racial laws, and opposed the establishment of the Union of French Jews, an organization set up by the Vichy government to represent French Jewry. The Consistoire was not dissolved by the Vichy authorities; throughout the war it ke...