WUNDERLAND
ZAREWNA/ZARIN

Withdrawal of troops from Finland.
(Aufgabe Hochland) Occupation of
Eastern Russia.

Attack by all arms in North Africa,
May 1942.

Operation against Convoy P.Q. 12, 6-9
March 1942 and return from Narvik
to Drontheim on 13 March 1942.
See GANGES.

See LANDWIRT.

Invasion of Poland.

Invasion of Norway.

Defense operation in France, 1944.

WESERUEBUNG

WESTRAUM

WIESENGRUND .... ... Attack on Northern Russia.

WIKINGER

Attack on fighting vessels, Dogger
Bank, February 1940.

Operations in White Sea, August 1942.
Mining operations, Murmansk Sea,
1942.

GLOSSARY OF COMMON GERMAN AND NAZI TITLES, DESIGNATIONS, AND TERMS, WITH THEIR OFFICIAL ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviation

Abt..........

AG.........

AO..........

APA..

ADtsch R.........Akademie fuer

aD..... AA.....

BdF...

German

Abschnitt

Abteilung
Abteilung Deutsche
Presse

Abwehr

Amt

A

...Auslands-Organi

sation

Deutsches Recht.. Academy for German Law
Office

Aktien-Gesellschaft Joint Stock Company
Amtsgericht
Angriffskrieg

Local Court

War of Aggression

Anklagebehoerde .... Office of Public Prosecutor
Ausland

The world outside the borders

of the Reich

B

English

Regional unit of SS and SD (about divisional strength) Division

Auslandsdeutsche.. German citizens residing out-
side Germany

Aussenpolitisches
Amt

Beauftragter
Beauftragter des
Fuehrers fuer die
Ueberwachung
der gesamten

German or Home Press Department

Intelligence and counter-intelligence department of OKH

ausser Dienst

Retired

Auswaertiges Amt.. Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Foreign Organization of the

NSDAP

NSDAP Bureau for Foreign

Affairs

Commissioner, delegate

geistigen und senior
weltansschaul-

German

ichen Schulung

und Erziehung
der NSDAP

Beauftragter fuer
den Vierjahres-
plan

Befehlsleiter
Bereichsleiter

Bevollmaechtigter
Bewegung

Block

Befehlshaber der

Ordnungspolizei.. Commander of the Order

Police

Befehlshaber der

Sicherheitspolizei Commander of the Security

Police

Rank in Party Administration
Rank in Party Administration
Plenipotentiary

Blockleiter
Botschafter

Bund Deutscher

Maedel

..Chef

Buergerliches
Gesetzbuch

English

Delegate of the Fuehrer for
the Total Supervision of In-
tellectual and Ideological
Training and Education of
the Party (Rosenberg)

Delegate for the Four Year
Plan (Goering)

The movement, i.e., the Nazi
Party, including Party for-
mations, affiliated and
supervised organizations
Smallest unit of the Nazi
Party, including several
houses

NSDAP leader of a block
Ambassador

C.

German Girls' League (female
Hitler Youth)

German Civil Code

Chief, head, commander,
superior

1

Abbreviation

DAF

DFW

DGT

DHD

DNB

DPK

DRK

eh.

..Deutsche diplo

Deutsches Nach-
richtenbuero

Dienstleiter

Drang nach Osten.
Dreierkollegium

Deutsches Rotes

Kreuz

..ehrenhalber

E

English

Head of civil administration (e.g. of an annexed area) Classified document for general officer only

matisch-politische

Korrespondenz .... German Diplomatic and Polit

ical Correspondence (News Agency of the Foreign Office)

German Red Cross

German Labor Front

German Woman's Organization (sub-organization of the NSF)

German Municipal Congress

German Commercial Service (News Agency)

Official German News Agency
Rank in Party administration
Drive to the East

The College of Three (the two
Plenipotentiaries for War
Economy and Administra-
tion, and the Chief of the
OKW)

Honorary