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Language of Description: English
Item type: Authorities

  1. Министерство обороны CCCP

    • Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union

    1917-1922, 1922-1991.

    The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the defence minister who was responsible for defence of the communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991. List of Defence Ministries: 1. People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934) 2. People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946) 3. People's Commissars for the Navy (1937–1946) 4. People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946) 5. Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950) 6. Minister of War (1950–1953) 7. Ministers of the Navy (1950–1953) 8. Ministers of De...

  2. Zorin Shalom

    1902

    1974

    Jewish partisan commander (Zorin Unit), escaped from Minsk ghetto.

  3. Seyss-Inquart Arthur

    • Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
    • Seyß-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Zajtich, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Seyss-Inquart, A. (Arthur), 1892-1946
    • ...

    22/07/1892

    16/10/1946

    Reich governor of Austria. Reich Commissioner of German-occupied Netherlands. Responsible for rounding-up of Dutch Jews.

  4. Gamzon Robert

    • Gamzon, Robert
    • Castor

    1905

    1961

    Founder of the Jewish scout movement in France and partisan commander, joined the executive board of UGIF in January 1942.

  5. Frick Wilhelm

    • Frick, Wilhelm, 1877-1946
    • Fulike 1877-1946
    • Frick, Wilhelm.

    12/03/1877

    16/10/1946

    Minister of the Interior, Bulgaria, 1940-1943.

  6. Funk Walther Emanuel

    1890/08/18

    31/05/1960

    Reichswirtschaftsminister (Reich minister for economic affairs).

  7. Hlinkova Garda

    • Hlinka Guard
    • HK

    Founded in 1938

    Hlinkova Garda was a militia established in Slovakia by the pro-Nazi Hlinkova slovenská l’udová strana (Hlinka Slovak People’s Party) after the Munich Conference of 1938, in which Western leaders allowed Hitler to occupy the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia. The Hlinkova Garda was named for Andreij Hlinka, a Slovak nationalist who died that same year. Members of the guard were given military training and were urged to hate Jews, Czechs, and supporters of the left. They wore black uniforms and used the Nazis’ raised-arm salute. In 1942, the HG and other collaborationists aided local police a...

  8. Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme

    • Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism
    • LVF

    Founded in 1941

    The Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme, led by Jacques Doriot, Eugène Deloncle and Marcel Déat, was set up as collaborationist groups in mid-1941. Initially, about 10,000 volunteered to fight in Nazi uniforms against the Soviet Union. About 3,600 did actually fight, though poorly because of insufficient training, in 1942 on the eastern front. A reorganized LVF unit served in operations against partisans in eastern Europe. Because of its fear that Doriot and the LVF would become to powerful, Vichy took it over in 1942-07, renaming it the Légion Tricolore. The military su...

  9. Francs-Tireurs et Partisans

    • FTP - French Fighters and Partisans
    • FTP

    1942/1944-02

    The Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, set up in the spring of 1942, resulted from the merger of three militant communist groups: the Organisation Spéciale, formed in 1940 to protect communist leaders; the group of young communists, the first to attack German soldiers; and the fighters of the Main-d’Oeuvre Immigrée. The FTP was the military arm of the communist Front National, which decided that about 20 per cent of its members would take part in it. With the introduction of the abhorred Service du Travail Obligatoire, non-communists joined the FTP for self-protection to avoid work in Germany, as...

  10. Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft

    • IG Farben

    1925-12-09/1945-11-30

    Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft had been founded on 1925-12-09, with the recording of the merger contract between the German chemical companies Bayer, BASF, Agfa, Griesheim-Elektron, Weiler-ter Meer and Hoechst. IG Farben became the sinister symbol of the economic power of the Nazis during World War Two. The production included poison gases and foreign, often forced and sometimes enslaved, laborers made up one-half of the 333.000 personnel. Because of the company’s entanglement and active participation in the crimes of the Nazi regime the Allies ‘decartelized’ IG ...

  11. Brack Viktor

    • Brack, Viktor, 1904-1948
    • Brack, Victor 1904-1948
    • Brack, Viktor

    09/11/1904

    02/06/1948

    Head of Amt II in the Kanzlei des Führers (KdF), one of the main leaders of the T4 "Euthanasie" program and organiser of medical experiments in concentration camps. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and executed.

  12. Reik Haviva

    1914

    20/11/1944

    One of the Jewish Agency's parachutist from Palestine sent by the Jewish Agency and the British army on various missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.. Captured and executed by Waffen-SS in Slovakia

  13. Sauckel Fritz

    27/10/1894

    16/10/1946

    NSDAP-Gauleiter in Thüringen (since 1927),General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) 1942/1945. Organized the systematic enslavement of millions of foreign citizens.

  14. 16-я 'Литовская' стрелковая дивизия

    • 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
    • Lietuviškoji 16-oji Raudonosios Armijos divizija

    The 16th Rifle Division was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. In the end of 1941 reformed and given the title 'Lithuanian', the division participated in several battles against Nazi Germany, including Kursk, Belarus, and the Baltic. It was disbanded at the end of the war, although it was briefly revived in 1955 before being disbanded once more. When the 16th Division was reformed after its destruction, it w...

  15. Doenitz Karl

    • Dönitz, Karl, 1891-1980
    • Doenitz, Karl, 1891-1980
    • Dönitz Oberleutnant zur See 1891-1980
    • Donitz, Karl
    • Dönitz, Karl
    • ...

    16/09/1891

    24/12/1980

    Großadmiral, commander of the German navy (Kriegsmarine).

  16. Bach-Zelewski Erich von dem

    • Bach, Erich ˜von demœ 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zelewski, Erich von dem Bach-, 1899-1972
    • Bach-Zalewski, Erich von dem, 1899-1972
    • Zalewski, Erich von dem Bach- 1899-1972
    • ...

    01/03/1899

    08/03/1972

    SS-Obergruppenführer , General der Polizei (General of police) (1944). 1938 Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Silesia, 1941 HSSPF Russland-Mitte, head of Einsatzgruppe B. Since 21 June 1943 Bevollmächtigter des Reichsführer-SS zur Bandenbekämpfung (murder of Jews and partisans). 1944 suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. End of 1944/1945 Stabschef des Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres. In the Nuremberg Trials crown witness for the prosecution. Sentenced to life for the murder of three communists in 1961.

  17. Brandt Rudolf

    • Brandt, Rudolf, 1909-1948
    • Brandt, Rudolf

    02/06/1909

    02/06/1948

    SS-Standartenführer (1944). Personal referent of Himmler. Head of the Ministerbüro in the Reichsinnenministerium (Reich Ministry of the Interior). Participated in the organisation of the murder of at least 86 Jews for Hirt's skeleton collection in Strassburg. Sentenced to death in Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.

  18. Falkenhausen Alexander von

    • Falkenhausen, Alexander ˜vonœ 1878-1966
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Von
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von, 1878-1966
    • Falkenhausen, Alexander Ernst 1878-1966 Baron von
    • Alexander 1878-1966 Freiherr von Falkenhausen
    • ...

    29/10/1878

    31/07/1966

    General of the German Infantry. 1940-1944 head of the military government (Chef der Militärverwaltung) in occupied Belgium and northern France, imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after the July Plot. After the war sentenced to 12 years of hard labour for shooting 240 hostages and for the deportation of 25000 Belgian Jews but released after three weeks in recognition of the fact that he also protected Belgians from the SS.

  19. Horthy Miklós

    • Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Nicolaus von, 1868-1957
    • Horthy, Miklós, nagybányai, 1868-1957
    • Nagybányai Horthy, Miklós, 1868-1957
    • הורטי, ניקולאוס
    • ...

    18/06/1868

    09/02/1957

    Hungarian military officer and politician, the Regent of Hungary between March 1, 1920, and October 16, 1944. After the coup d'état of the Arrow Cross Party, he was under German house arrest. After the end of the war he settled in Portugal.

  20. Lakatos Géza

    • Lakatos, Géza
    • Lakatos, Géza, 1890-1967

    30/04/1890

    21/05/1967

    Military oficer and politician. Prime Minister of Hungary 29.08./16.10.1944.