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(German)
Jelgava
Mitau (German)
Jurbarkas
Georgenburg (German)
Kaunas
Kauen (German), Kowno (Polish), Kovno (Russian), Kovne (Yiddish)
Kingisepp
Yamburg (German)
Königsberg
renamed Kaliningrad (Russian) after the war
Liepāja
Libau (German)
Livonia
Livland (German)
Mežaparks
Kaiserwald (German)
Palanga
Polangen (German)
Paneriai
Ponary (Polish), Ponar (Yiddish)
Priekule
Preekuln (German)
Priekulė
Prokuls (German)
Pskov
Pleskau (German)
Rezekne
Rositten (German)
Schneidemühl
renamed Piła (Polish) after the war
Šiauliai
Schaulen (German), Szawle (Polish), Shavel (Yiddish)
Šilutė
Heydekrug (German)
Tallinn
Reval (German)
Tannenberg
Stębark (Polish)
Tilsit
renamed Sovetsk (Russian) after the war
Ukmergė
Wilkomierz (German)
Vilijampolė
Viriampol (German)
Vilnius
Wilna (German), Wilno (Polish), Vilna (Russian), Vilne (Yiddish)

APPENDIX 2: RANKS
Brigadeführer
SS rank equivalent to brigadier
Feldwebel
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to staff sergeant
Gefreiter
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to lance-corporal
Generalfeldmarschall
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to field marshal
Generalkommissar
senior rank in German occupation administration
Generalleutnant
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to major-general
Generalmajor
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to brigadier
Generaloberst
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to general
Gruppenführer
SS rank quivalent to major general
Hauptmann
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to captain
Hauptscharführer
SS rank equivalent to company sergeant-major
Hauptsturmführer
SS rank equivalent to captain
Kapitänleutnant
Kriegsmarine rank equivalent to lieutenant
Leutnant
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to 2nd lieutenant
Major
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to major
Oberfeldwebel
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to company sergeant-major
Obergruppenführer
SS rank equivalent to lieutenant general
Oberleutnant
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to lieutenant
Oberst
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to colonel
Oberstleutnant
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to lieutenant colonel
Obersturmbannführer
SS rank equivalent to lieutenant colonel
Rittmeister
Wehrmacht (originally cavalry) rank equivalent to captain
Rottenführer
SS rank equivalent to corporal
Stabsfeldwebel
Wehrmacht rank equivalent to regimental sergeant-major
Standartenführer
SS rank equivalent to colonel
Sturmbannführer
SS rank equivalent to major
Unterscharführer
SS rank equivalent to sergeant
Untersturmführer
SS rank equivalent to 2nd lieutenant

APPENDIX 3: ACRONYMS

AK
Armia Krajowa (‘home army’), the Polish resistance army supported by the Western Powers
AOK
Armee Oberkommando (Army High Command), e.g. AOK Ostpreussen
BDO
Bund Deutscher Offiziere (League of German Officers)
EVR
Eesti Vabariigi Rahvuskomitee (Estonian Republic National Committee)
FPO
Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisans Organisation)
GPU
Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (State Political Directorate), Soviet, a part of the NKVD
HKP
Heeres Kraftfahr Park (Army Freight Vehicle Pool), German
HSSPf
Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer (senior SS and police commander), German
LAF
Lietuvos Aktyvistų Frontas (Lithuanian Activist Front)
LCP
Latvijas Centrālā Padome (Latvian Central Committee)
LKNS
Latviju Kareivju Nacionālā Savienība (National Federation of Latvian Fighters)
LLA
Lietuvos Laisvės Armija (Lithuanian Freedom Army)
LLKS
Lietuvos Laisvės Kovos Sąjūdis (Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters)
LVR
Lietuvos Vietinė Rinktinė (Lithuanian Defence Force)
NKFD
Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland (National Committee for a Free Germany)
NKVD
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs), the Soviet Secret Police
OKH
Oberkommando des Heeres (German Army High Command)
OKW
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Wehrmacht High Command)
RHSA
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Administration), German
RVL
Relvastadud Voitluse Liit (Armed Resistance League), Estonian
SA
Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment), German, the pre-war paramilitary wing of the National Socialist