Party
SD
Sicherheitsdienst (Security Administration), German
STAVKA
Soviet High Command
TAR
Tevynes Apsaugas Rinktine (Fatherland Defence Force), Lithuanian
TDA
Tautos Darbo Apsauga (National Labour Service Battalion), Lithuanian
APPENDIX 4: FOREIGN TERMS
Abwehr
the German military intelligence branch
Auftragstaktik
military concept centered on achievement of a mission, which allowed junior officers to take decisions, in contrast to older, more rigid command and control systems
Freikorps
volunteer military organisations assembled from former German army personnel in the Baltic States and Germany in the aftermath of the First World War
Judenrat
lit. ‘Jewish council’, the Jewish administrative body responsible for organising the Jewish communities in the occupied territories
Komjautnatne
Latvian youth organisation
Komsomol
Soviet youth organisation
Ostministerium
Common abbreviation for the Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (‘Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories’)
Omakaitse
Originally the Estonian ‘Home Guard’ after the First World War; re-established as a militia group after the German invasion in 1941
Pērkonkrusts
lit. ‘Thunder Cross’, a Latvian extreme nationalist group, with links to the RSHA and to Einsatzgruppe A
SS-Führungshauptamt
the headquarters of the non-combat elements of the SS, based in Berlin
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archives and collections
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg
Bundersarchiv, Berlin
Dokumenti Vneshnei Politiki (Foreign Affairs Documents), Ministerstvo Inostrannyk Del Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation), Moscow
Hoover Institution of War, Peace and Revolution Archive, Stanford, California
Imperial War Museum, London
Jewish Internet Consortium
Latvijas Valsts Arhīvs (Latvian State Archive), Riga
Latvijas Zinātņu Akadēmijas Centrālais Arhīvs (Central Archives of the Academy of Sciences, Latvia), Riga
Records of the United States Senate, Washington DC
Tsentralnyi Archiv Ministertsva Oborony (Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence), Moscow
United States Library of Congress, Washington DC
United States National Archives
Journals, periodicals and newspapers
Armor, Fort Benning, Georgia
Baltic Defence Review, Tartu, Estonia
Brīvā Zeme, Riga
Central European History Journal, Cambridge University Press
Europe-Asia Studies, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
Gazeta Kapitalist, Riga
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre, Vilnius
Journal of Baltic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Land Warfare Papers, Institute of Land Warfare, Arlington, Virginia
Military Review , Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Nash Sovremmenik , Moscow
Nepriklausoma Lietuva (1943)
Novaya e Novenshaya Istoriya , Moscow
Otechestvennaya Istoriya , Moscow
Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm
Time , New York
Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal , Moscow
Books and articles
Andersons, E., Siliņš, L. (eds) (2002) Latvija un Rietumi. Latviešu Nacionālā Pretestības Kustība 1943–1945 , Riga: Latvijas Universitātes žurnāla ‘Latvijas Vēsture’ fonds
Angrick, A., Klein, P. (2009) The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation 1941–1944 , New York: Berghahn
Arad, Y. et al (eds) (1989) The Einsatzgruppen Reports. Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads’ Campaign Against the Jews in Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union July 1941–January 1943 , New York: Holocaust Library
Bagramian, I. (1984) So Schritten Wir Zum Sieg , Berlin: Militärverlag der DDR
Balashov, A. (2006) Ystoriya Velykoye Otechiestvennoye Voinyi 1941–1945 , St Petersburg: Peter
Baltais, M. (1999) The Latvian Legion in Documents , Toronto: Amber
Barnett, C. (ed.) (1989) Hitler’s Generals , New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Bartusevičius, V., Tauber, J., Wette, W. (eds) (2003) Holocaust in Litauen , Cologne: Böhlau
Bennett, G. (1964) Cowan’s War , London:
SD
Sicherheitsdienst (Security Administration), German
STAVKA
Soviet High Command
TAR
Tevynes Apsaugas Rinktine (Fatherland Defence Force), Lithuanian
TDA
Tautos Darbo Apsauga (National Labour Service Battalion), Lithuanian
APPENDIX 4: FOREIGN TERMS
Abwehr
the German military intelligence branch
Auftragstaktik
military concept centered on achievement of a mission, which allowed junior officers to take decisions, in contrast to older, more rigid command and control systems
Freikorps
volunteer military organisations assembled from former German army personnel in the Baltic States and Germany in the aftermath of the First World War
Judenrat
lit. ‘Jewish council’, the Jewish administrative body responsible for organising the Jewish communities in the occupied territories
Komjautnatne
Latvian youth organisation
Komsomol
Soviet youth organisation
Ostministerium
Common abbreviation for the Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (‘Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories’)
Omakaitse
Originally the Estonian ‘Home Guard’ after the First World War; re-established as a militia group after the German invasion in 1941
Pērkonkrusts
lit. ‘Thunder Cross’, a Latvian extreme nationalist group, with links to the RSHA and to Einsatzgruppe A
SS-Führungshauptamt
the headquarters of the non-combat elements of the SS, based in Berlin
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archives and collections
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg
Bundersarchiv, Berlin
Dokumenti Vneshnei Politiki (Foreign Affairs Documents), Ministerstvo Inostrannyk Del Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation), Moscow
Hoover Institution of War, Peace and Revolution Archive, Stanford, California
Imperial War Museum, London
Jewish Internet Consortium
Latvijas Valsts Arhīvs (Latvian State Archive), Riga
Latvijas Zinātņu Akadēmijas Centrālais Arhīvs (Central Archives of the Academy of Sciences, Latvia), Riga
Records of the United States Senate, Washington DC
Tsentralnyi Archiv Ministertsva Oborony (Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence), Moscow
United States Library of Congress, Washington DC
United States National Archives
Journals, periodicals and newspapers
Armor, Fort Benning, Georgia
Baltic Defence Review, Tartu, Estonia
Brīvā Zeme, Riga
Central European History Journal, Cambridge University Press
Europe-Asia Studies, Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow
Gazeta Kapitalist, Riga
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Centre, Vilnius
Journal of Baltic Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Land Warfare Papers, Institute of Land Warfare, Arlington, Virginia
Military Review , Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Nash Sovremmenik , Moscow
Nepriklausoma Lietuva (1943)
Novaya e Novenshaya Istoriya , Moscow
Otechestvennaya Istoriya , Moscow
Svenska Dagbladet , Stockholm
Time , New York
Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal , Moscow
Books and articles
Andersons, E., Siliņš, L. (eds) (2002) Latvija un Rietumi. Latviešu Nacionālā Pretestības Kustība 1943–1945 , Riga: Latvijas Universitātes žurnāla ‘Latvijas Vēsture’ fonds
Angrick, A., Klein, P. (2009) The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation 1941–1944 , New York: Berghahn
Arad, Y. et al (eds) (1989) The Einsatzgruppen Reports. Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads’ Campaign Against the Jews in Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union July 1941–January 1943 , New York: Holocaust Library
Bagramian, I. (1984) So Schritten Wir Zum Sieg , Berlin: Militärverlag der DDR
Balashov, A. (2006) Ystoriya Velykoye Otechiestvennoye Voinyi 1941–1945 , St Petersburg: Peter
Baltais, M. (1999) The Latvian Legion in Documents , Toronto: Amber
Barnett, C. (ed.) (1989) Hitler’s Generals , New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Bartusevičius, V., Tauber, J., Wette, W. (eds) (2003) Holocaust in Litauen , Cologne: Böhlau
Bennett, G. (1964) Cowan’s War , London:
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