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The Holocaust [r]: Add brief definition or description
RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD ^[e]
- Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination ^[e]
Operation Barbarossa [r]: The German invasion of the Soviet Union, beginning on June 22, 1941 ^[e]

Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT) [r]: Nuremberg Military Tribunals case against the leadership of mobile killing units that conducted genocidal operations outside Nazi concentration camps ^[e]

Waffen SS [r]: "Armed SS", principally SS elite combat units of divisional and corps strength, but also used for special duties in security and genocide; overall command of Oberstgruppenfuehrer Paul Hausser ^[e]
ORPO [r]: The regular Order Police Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany, administratively under the Reich Interior Ministry but commanded by SS officers, first Oberstgruppenfuehrer Kurt Daluege (1936–1943) then by SS-Obergruppenführer Alfred Wünnenberg ^[e]
KRIPO [r]: General German term for criminal investigation police (Kriminalpolizei); part of the WWII RSHA of the SS, first commanded by Artur Nebe and then directly to RSHA chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner ^[e]
Sicherheitsdienst [r]: The intelligence service of the Nazi SS, originally separated into foreign and domestic offices, part of the RSHA ^[e]
Gestapo [r]: The secret political police force of Nazi Germany, a state rather than party organization, reporting both to the SS (Party) and Ministry of the Interior (State) ^[e]

Franz Walter Stahlecker [r]: (1900-1942) Nazi police and intelligence officer; SS-Brigadefuehrer; SD officer; HSSPF of Bohemia and Moravia, then Norway; commanded Einsatzgruppe A; killed in action while HSSPF Ostland ^[e]
Otto Ohlendorf [r]: SS-Gruppenfuehrer; head of domestic intelligence (Amt III) in the SD; Commanding Officer of Einsatzgruppe D; executed by verdict of the Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT) trial in the Nuremberg Military Tribunals ^[e]
Artur Nebe [r]: German police officer before the Nazis, first sympathetic then part of the resistance; headed KRIPO and then an Einsatzgruppe; executed for anti-Nazi activities ^[e]
Otto Rasch [r]: Formally referred to as "Dr. Dr." with two doctorates; SS-Brigadefuehrer; member of the SD and Gestapo Commanding Officer of Einsatzgruppe C; removed from the Einsatzgruppen Case trial for medical reasons and died 1 November 1948 ^[e]