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  1. Vilniaus miesto policijos vadas

    • Stadtpolizeiführer Wilna
    • Chief of Vilnius City police

    Chief of Vilnius City police was subordinate to the German Military administration.

  2. Max Merten

    • מקס מרטן

    Military Administration Counselor in Thessaloniki, took part in persecution and deportation of Jews

  3. Johann Friedlaender

    A senior Austrian military officer of Jewish origin

  4. Otto von Stuelpnagel

    • אוטו פון שטולפנגל

    German Military Commander in France 1940-1942

  5. Les Chantiers de la Jeunesse

    • The Chantiers

    Founded in 1940-07

    Les Chantiers de la Jeunesse was founded in 1940-07 and headed by General Joseph de La Porte du Theil, who had been an active figure in the Boy Scout movement and who used the Boy Scout motto, ‘be prepared’. This organization was originally intended as an emergency measure to find work for six months for men who had been demobilized or were of draft age. Over 92,000 had been called up for military service in 1940-05, but the war ended before they were a part of a military unit. In a sense the Chantiers replaced conscription. The Chantiers became a mandatory body under the authority of the S...

  6. Kaltenbrunner Ernst

    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1903-1946
    • Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1902-1946

    04/10/1903

    16/10/1946

    Head of the SS and police in Austria. Since 01.01.1943, head of RSHA and of Sipo and SD. Sentenced to death and executed in Nuremberg in 1946.

  7. Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia

    • Committee of National Liberation of Upper Italy
    • CLNAI

    Founded in 1944-01

    In 1944-01 a supreme politico-military authority, the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia, was formed to coordinate the activities of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale and partisans. This body soon asserted its claims to power, not only against Germans and Fascists in the North but also against the official government and against the Allies. Eventually the Allies agreed to recognize the CLNAI as the legitimate political representative of the Resistance forces, and to entrust it with maintaining public order in liberated zones until an Allied Military Government could be set up.

  8. Związek Walki Zbrojnej

    • Union for Armed Struggle
    • ZWZ

    In German controlled Poland the Polish underground in 1940 gradually became more tightly organized. General Sikorski in France took steps to bring all resistance forces in the homeland under the control of his government in exile. Since the beginning of the war, dozens of independent resistance groups had sprung up, mistrustful of any central control. Sikorski ordered the Służba Zwycięstwu Polski (Service for the Victory of Poland), by far the largest of the underground organizations, to transform itself into the central organ of military resistance under the name of Związek Walki Zbrojnej....

  9. Zveno

    • Zveno government

    Founded in 1930

    Zveno was a nationalist party, a small group of idealistic military officers and politicians that had an influence on Bulgarian politicians far out of proportion to its size. Zveno played a leading role in the Communist coup of 1944 in Bulgaria.

  10. Organization Todt

    • Todt Organization
    • OT

    Organization Todt formed Nazi-sponsored, paramilitary labor battalions. This German military organization was dedicated to heavy construction and utilized concentration camp labor. OT also operated in the rearguard of Einsatzgruppen activity. It was headed by Dr. Fritz Todt until his death in 1942.

  11. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Inland

    • OKW Abteilung Inland

    The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Inland was engaged in general military-political matters. Abteilung Inland's principal nodes in the field were the intelligence officers stationed in the staff of every home command.

  12. Beregfy Károly

    12/02/1888

    12/03/1946

    Hungarian military officer and politician. Minister of Defence in the Szálasi Cabinet in 1944-1945. In 1946 he was found guilty of war crimes and executed.

  13. Vilmos Nagybaczoni Nagy

    Hungarian army general. In September 1942 he was appointed the minister of defence in Kállay-government. In this position he tried to abolish the brutal treatment of labour servicemen and made no attempt to satisfy the Germans’ military demands. In June 1943 he was dismissed by Prime Minister Miklós Kállay. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was arrested. In 1965 Yad Vashem awarded him the title “Righteous among the Nations.”

  14. Švenčionių apskrities policijos vadas

    • Police Chief Commander of Švenčionys county

    Police Chief Commander of Švenčionys county was under the authority of German administrative and military authorities. The main goal of the Police Chief Commander was to ensure stability and security in the district, to supervise whether residents live according laws. Police Chief Commander of Švenčionys county office supported Nazi authorities.

  15. Order of Vitéz

    • Országos Vitézi Szék

    Hungarian order of merit. During World War II, many members of the Hungarian government and military were members of the Order.

  16. Kommandostab Reichsfuehrer SS

    A force consisting of three SS brigades under the personal command of Himmler (which was not subordinate to the Einsatzgruppen or other forces) that operated behind the military lines during the invasion of the Soviet Union and liquidated Communists, partisans and mainly Jews.

  17. Turkish government

    In examining the decision-making process in the Turkish government during the Second World War years two factors must be kept in mind; the government during this period was authoritarian, and power was very centralized. The Grand National Assembly, the Parliamentary Group of the CHP, the Cabinet and Inönü. This power structure included practically all the politically active elements in Turkish society. Yet despite Italy’s entry into the war in 1940-06 and the subsequent Axis campaign in the Balkans, which culminated in Germany’s invasion and defeat of Yugoslavia and Greece in spring 1941, T...

  18. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

  19. Організація Українських Націоналістів

    • Orhanizatsiya Ukrayins'kykh Natsionalistiv
    • Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
    • ОУН

    The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)was a Ukrainian political organization created in 1929 in Western Ukraine (at the time interwar Poland). The OUN emerged as a union between the Ukrainian Military Organization, smaller radical right-wing groups, and right-wing Ukrainian nationalists and intellectuals. In 1940, the OUN split into two parts. The older, more moderate members, supported Andriy Melnyk (OUN-M) while the younger and more radical members supported Stepan Bandera (OUN-B). The OUN-B declared an independent Ukrainian state in June 1941, while the region was under the con...

  20. Légion Tricolore

    • LT

    Founded in 1942-07

    Because of its fear that Doriot and the Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme would become too powerful, Vichy took it over in 1942-07, renaming it the Légion Tricolore. The military successes of the Allied landings in North Africa led to the Légion Tricolore being reconverted from an official to a political body, again being named Légion des Volontaires Français Contra le Bolchevisme.