ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT

AA	Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office)
ADF	Party for Democratic Action and Progress
AFP	Agence France-Presse (the third-biggest news agency in the world)
APO	Außerparlamentarische Opposition (political protest movement)
BND	Bundesnachrichtendienst (West German intelligence service)
CDJC	Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation
CDU	Christian Democratic Union
CRIF	Representative Council of Israelites in France
DVU	Deutsche Volksunion
DPA	German press agency
EEC	European Economic Community
FDP	Free Democratic Party
FFDJF	Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France
FMS	Fondation Pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Foundation)
FSJU	United Jewish Welfare Fund
GPU	State Political Directorate
HICEM	Jewish emigration company
LICA	International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism
MEJ	Jewish Student Movement
NPD	National Democratic Party (neo-Nazi party)
ORTF	France’s national broadcasting agency
OSE	Children’s Aid Society
RSHA	Reich Main Security Office
SA	Sturmabteilung (Nazi party storm troopers)
SD	Sicherheitsdienst (SS’s intelligence service)
SDS	radical German student movement
Sipo	Sicherheitspolizei (security police)
Sipo-SD	umbrella organization combining the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kripo (criminal police)
SNCF	French national railway company
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany
UGIF	General Union of Israelites in France
VVN	association for victims of Nazism