| AEG |
Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electricity Company) |
| AFS |
American Field Service |
| AG |
Aktiengesellschaft (stock company) |
| BEG |
Bundesentschädigungsgesetz (Federal Compensation Law) |
| CDJC |
Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center) |
| CENTOS |
Zespol Zwiazek Towarzystw Opieki nad Dziecmi i Sierotami (Federation of Associations for Orphanages and Children’s Homes, Poland) |
| CGQJ |
Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (General Commission for Jewish Questions) |
| CRE |
Committee for Refugee Education |
| CV |
Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith) |
| DDR |
Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) |
| DELASEM |
Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti Ebrei (Association for Assistance to Jewish Refugees) |
| DP |
Displaced person(s) |
| Dulag |
Durchgangslager (transit camp) |
| DZV |
Deutsche Zionistische Vereinigung (German Zionist Association) |
| ECAR |
Education, Cultural Affairs and Religion (U.S. Army Civil Affairs unit) |
| ERR |
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (Special Staff of Reichsleiter Rosenberg) |
| FIAT |
Field Information Agency, Technical |
| FSB |
Federalnaia sluzhba bezophasnosti Rossii (Russian Federal Security Service) |
| GARF |
Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiskoi Federatsii (Archives of the Russian Federation) |
| Gestapo |
Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police) |
| GI |
Government issue (refers to American soldiers and military equipment) |
| G.m.b.H. |
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (company with limited liability) |
| HIAS |
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society |
| HICEM |
Organization formed in France in 1927 by Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (H), Jewish Colonization Association (IC), and the Emigdirect (EM) |
| HSSPF |
Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer (Higher SS and Police Leader) |
| ICRC |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
| IMT |
International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg 1945–46) |
| IRO |
International Refugee Organization |
| ITS |
International Tracing Service |
| KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee of State Security—USSR) |
| KL |
Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) |
| KZ |
Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) |
| MACE |
Maison d’Accueil Chrétienne pour Enfants (Christian Welcome Home for Children) |
| MFA |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| MID |
U.S. Military Intelligence Division |
| MGB |
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Ministry of State Security—USSR) |
| MVD |
Ministrestvo Vnutrennykh Del (Ministry of Internal Affairs—USSR) |
| NARA |
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD |
| NGO |
Non-Governmental Organization |
| NKVD |
Narodnii Kommissariat Vnutrennykh Del (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs—USSR) |
| NSDAP |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) |
| OCCWC |
Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (trials subsequent to IMT) |
| OFD |
Oberfinanzdirektion (Office of the Director of Finance) |
| Oflag |
Offizierslager ([military POW] officers’ camp) |
| OMGUS |
Office of Military Government, United States in Germany |
| Orpo |
Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) |
| ORT |
Obschevstvo Remeslenovoi i Zemledelcheskovo Trouda (Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor) |
| OSI |
Office of Special Investigations |
| OT |
Organisation Todt (Todt Organization) |
| OUN-B |
Organizatsiya Ukrainskikh Nationalistiv-Bandera (Ukrainian Nationalist Organization—Bandera Faction) |
| OUSCCPAC |
Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality (at the IMT) |
| POW |
Prisoner of war |
| RAD |
Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service) |
| RG |
Record group |
| RGALI |
Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvennyy Arkhiv Literatury i Iskusstva (Russian State Archive of Literature and Art) |
| RGVA |
Rossiyskiy Gosudarstvennyy Voennyy Arkhiv (Russian State Military Archives) |
| RSHA |
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office) |
| SA |
Sturmabteilungen (Storm Detachments) |
| SD |
Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) |
| SHAEF |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force |
| SIPO |
Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) |
| SovInformBuro |
Soviet Information Bureau (successor to the Comintern—Communist International) |
| SS |
Schutzstaffel (Protection Squads) |
| SSPF |
SS- und Polizeiführer (SS and Police Leader) |
| Stalag |
Stammlager (main [POW] camp) |
| UdSSR |
Union der sowjetischen sozialistischen Republiken (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
| UGIF |
Union Générale des Israélites de France (General Union of Jews in France) |
| UNRRA |
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration |
| URO |
United Restitution Organization |
| U.S. |
United States |
| USHMC |
United States Holocaust Memorial Council |
| USHMM |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| WJC |
World Jewish Congress |
| YIVO |
Institute for Jewish Research |
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