Glossary of Abbreviations
ACLS | American Council of Learned Societies |
ACofS | Assistant Chief of Staff |
AMGOT | Allied Military Government (used only in Italy) |
ASHCAN | Detention center for important German war crimes suspects |
AT (E) Committee | Administration of Territories Committee (Europe) |
Buergermeister | Mayor |
CA | Civil affairs |
CAD | Civil Affairs Division |
CAO | Civil Affairs Officer |
CATP | Civil Affairs Training Program |
CCAC | Combined Civil Affairs Committee |
CCAC (L) | Combined Civil Affairs Committee (London) |
CCMS | Control Commission (Military Section) |
CCS | Combined Chiefs of Staff |
CDPX | Combined Displaced Persons Executive |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union |
CIC | Counterintelligence Corps |
CMH | Center of Military History |
COSSAC | Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (designate) |
CROWCASS | Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects |
CSU | Christian Social Union |
DANA | Deutsche Allgemeine Nachrichten Agentur (German General News Agency) |
DCCAO | Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer |
DISCC | District Information Services Control Command |
DP | Displaced person |
DPX | Displaced Persons Executive |
DUSTBIN | Detention and interrogation center for German scientific and technical personnel |
EAC | European Advisory Commission |
EGAD | European Civil Affairs Division |
ECAR | European Civil Affairs Regiment |
ECLIPSE | November 1944 posthostilities plan for Germany |
Edelzveissbiraten | German adolescent gangs of the Nazi and occupation periods |
ETO | European Theater of Operations |
ETOUSA | European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army |
FEA | Foreign Economics Administration |
FIAT | Field Information Agency Technical |
Fragebogen | Questionnaire used by military government to determine Nazi and militarist associations of Germans |
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G-1 | Personnel section of a divisional or high staff |
G-2 | Intelligence section |
G-3 | Operations section |
G-4 | Supply section |
G-5 | Civil affairs-military government section |
Gauleiter | Regional leader of the Nazi party |
Gemeinde | Municipality |
Gestapo | Geheimestaatspolizei (secret political police) |
GOLDCUP | SHAEF plan for assuming control of German governmental agencies |
HUSKY | Allied Invasion of Sicily, July 1943 |
ICD | Information Control Division, USFET |
IPCOG | Informal Policy Committee on Germany |
JAG | Judge Advocate General |
JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
Land | German state |
Laenderrat | Council of Minister Presidents |
Landkreis | Rural administrative area similar to US county |
Landrat | Chief administrative officer of a Landkreis |
Meldebogen | Questionnaire used under the Law for Liberation from Nazism and Militarism to determine Nazi and militarist associations of Germans |
MFA&A | Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives |
MG | Military government |
MGO | Military Government Officer |
MMLA | Mission Militaire de Liaison Administrative (French organization concerned mainly with DP care) |
Oberbuergermeister | Chief mayor |
OCTAGON | U.S.-British conference at Quebec, September 1944 |
OMG | Office of Military Government |
OMGUS | Office of Military Government (US) |
Ortsgruppenleiter | Local Nazi party group leader |
OSS | Office of Strategic Services |
OVERCAST | Program to move German scientific and technical specialists to the United States |
OVERLORD | Invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944 |
OWI | Office of War Information |
PAPERCLIP | See OVERCAST |
PMG | Provost Marshal General |
RAMP | Recovered Allied military personnel (used to designate freed Allied prisoners of war) |
RANKIN | Plans for return to the Continent in the event of a Gerlnan withdrawal or collapse |
RANKIN C | Plan for return to the Continent in the event of a German collapse |
Regierungsbezirk | District |
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Reichsbahn | The German railroads |
ROUNDHAMMER | Variant of ROUNDUP |
ROUNDUP | Plan for a cross-Channel operation in 1943 |
SA | Sturmabtedung (paramilitary organization of the Nazi party) |
SCAEF | Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force |
SHAEF | Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force |
SLOE | Special list of equipment |
Spruchkammer | German denazification tribunals established under the Law for Liberation from Nazism and Militarism |
SS | Schutzstaffel (the elite military and police organization of the Nazi party) |
Stadtkreis | The area within the city limits of a city or town |
SWNCC | State-War-Navy Co-ordinating Committee |
TALISMAN | August 1944 posthostilities plan for Germany |
TALLYHO | USFET check and search operation, July 1945 |
T/O | Table of organization |
TORCH | Allied invasion of North Africa, November 194? |
TRIDENT | U.S.-British conference in Washington, May 1943 |
UNRRA | United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration USFET US Forces in the European Theater USO United Services Organizations |
Volkssturm | German militia composed of men too young, too old, or physically unfit for regular military service |
WAC | Women's Army Corps |
Wac | A member of the Women's Army Corps |
Wehrmacht | German Armed Forces |
Werwolf | Nazi-sponsored German guerrilla and resistance movement |
WSC | Working Security Committee |
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