BCRA |
Bureau Central de Renseignements et d’Action (eventual title of the London-based co-ordinating centre of Gaullist intelligence networks) |
BEF |
British Expeditionary Force |
CGQJ |
Commissariat Générale aux Questions Juives – main body charged with enforcing anti-Semitic laws |
CNR |
Conseil National de la Résistance |
EIF |
Eclaireurs Israélites de France – the Jewish Scout movement |
ERR |
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg – Nazi cultural agency |
FFI |
Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur – Free French forces inside France |
FTP |
Francs-Tireurs et Partisans – left-wing Resistance movement |
GFP |
Geheime Feldpolizei – German Military Police |
GP |
Groupe de Protection – Pétain’s bodyguard |
LVF |
Légion des Volontaires Français contre le bolchevisme – French volunteers fighting in German uniform on the eastern front |
MSR |
Mouvement Social Revolutionnaire – a fascist movement |
OKW |
Oberkommandantur der Wehrmacht – German Army High Command |
PCF |
Parti Communiste Français – French Communist Party |
PPF |
Parti Populaire Français – Doriot’s extreme pro-German party |
PQJ |
Police aux Questions Juives – special anti-Jewish police force |
RG |
Renseignements Généraux – French equivalent of Special Branch |
RHSA |
Reichshauptsicherheitsampt – Himmler’s umbrella organisation running the SS and SD |
RMVE |
Régiment de Marche de Volontaires Etrangers – temporary Foreign Legion regiment of volunteers in 1940 |
RNP |
Rassemblement National Populaire - Déat’s extreme right-wing party |
SD |
Sicherheitsdienst – Amt VI of RHSA covering external security |
SNCF |
Société des Chemins de Fer Français – French state railway system |
SOL |
Service d’Ordre Légionnaire – forerunner of the Milice |
SPAC |
Service de Police Anti-Communiste – anti-Communist police units |
STO |
Service de Travail Obligatoire – organisation of compulsory labour in the Reich |
UGIF |
Union Générale des Israélites de France – umbrella organisation by which the Germans organised the fate of the Jewish community |