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  1. Kadra Bezpieczeństwa

    1942/1944-04

    Kadra Bezpieczeństwa was an underground military organization. Korpus Bezpieczeństwa, an underground military organization, was renamed in 1944-11 into Kadra Bezpieczeństwa.

  2. Związek Walki Czynnej

    • Union for Active Resistance
    • ZWC

    Founded in 1908

    Związek Walki Czynnej was a Polish secret military organization founded in 1908.

  3. Walter Braemer

    • Braemer, Walter
    • Walter Braemer (1883 - 1955)
    • Braemer, Walter (1883 - 1955)

    07-01-1883 / 13-06-1955

    Wehrmachtbefehlshaber or supreme military commander of the Reichskommissariat Ostland between 1941 and 1944.

  4. Korpus Bezpieczeństwa

    • KB

    1944-04/1944-11

    Korpus Bezpieczeństwa, an underground military organization, was renamed in 1944-11 into Kadra Bezpieczeństwa. The commandant was colonel A. Petrykowski. It took part in Warsaw uprising. In 1944 it submitted to Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Polish Committee of National Liberation).

  5. Halder Franz

    • Halder, Franz, 1884-1972
    • Гальдер, Франц, 1884-1972
    • Galʹder, Frant︠s︡, 1884-1972
    • Halder, Franz
    • Halder.
    • ...

    30/06/1884

    02/04/1972

    Generaloberst (1940). Chief of the German Army General Staff (Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres) 1938 - September, 1942.

  6. Wilhelm Canaris

    German admiral, and chief of Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.

  7. Restitution and Reparations Branch of OMGUS

    • המחלקה להשבת הרכוש היהודי בגרמניה של OMGUS

    Department of the Office of Military Government of the United States (OMGUS) created with the function of locating and returning material to countries from which claimed property had been looted by the Nazis during World War II.

  8. Campet Jacques

    General, chief of Petain's military cabinet 1941-1943.

  9. Walter Braemer

    7 January 1883 – 13 June 1955

  10. Obrana Národa

    • National Defense
    • ON

    Obrana Národa was a Czech resistance underground organization, founded by military officers of the Czech army. The aim of Obrana Národa was to prepare for a national uprising if a European war broke out. In the meantime its leaders sought to establish a clandestine intelligence network at home and a Czech military force abroad.

  11. 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.

  12. Organisation de Résistance de l'Armée

    • Army Resistance Organisation
    • ORA

    Founded in 1942-12-01

    On 1942-12-01 the Organisation de Résistance de l'Armée was formed by General Aubert Frere. ORA became active after Germany occupied the Free (Vichy) Zone in 1942-11. Organized by career officers and run on a professional military basis, ORA initially backed General Giraud rather than de Gaulle as the head of the Resistance: it's mission was military, not political.

  13. The Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archives

    • ארכיון הצה''ל

    1948 -

    The Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archives (IDFA) was established in July 1948, during Israel's War of Independence. IDFA keeps Israeli military documentation of all sorts, including files, publications, audio and video, photographs, maps and posters. IDFA and its subsidiaries also house documentation of Jewish military organizations which were active before the establishment of the State of Israel, such as "Haganah", "Lehi" and "Hashomer", as well as a collection dedicated to Jewish Soldiers in World Armies.

  14. Infantery Regiment

    An infantery division consists out of several infantery regiments, and these regiments consist out of several battalions.

  15. Sonderstab F

    • Special Staff F

    A special military mission called Sonderstab F, after its commander General Felmy, was sent to Iraq in 1941-05.

  16. Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa

    • Polish People’s Action for Independence
    • PLAN

    Polska Ludowa Akcja Niepodległościowa was a Polish underground group.

  17. Gustave Mark Gilbert

    Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist best known for his psychological diagnoses of high ranking Nazi leaders and officials during the Nuremberg Trials.

  18. Yitzhak Stone

    Nuerenberg Trials

  19. IDF - Israel Defense Forces

    • צה"ל - צבא הגנה לישראל

    Israel's military force

  20. Hermann Mueller-John

    A German military musician who commanded the murder of about 50 Polish citizens, among them Jews, on 18-19/9/1939