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Terms and Abbreviations ADN: The GDR news agency Bezirk: One of fourteen GDR districts DAF: German Labor Front DEFA: GDR film production company DSF: Society for German-Soviet Friendship FDGB: Free German Trade Union FDJ: Free German Youth Gau: A Nazi party region GDR: German Democratic Republic GPA: German Propaganda Archive Kreis: Roughly the equivalent of an American county NSDAP: National Socialist German Workers Party OKW: Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht RKK: Reich Chamber of Culture RMVP: Reich Ministry for People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda RPL: Reich Central Propaganda Office SA: “Brown Shirts,” or Storm Troopers SAPMO: The repository of East German party and mass organization records, part of the German Federal Archives SD: Security Service of the SS SED: Socialist Unity Party of Germany SS: “Black Shirts,” the elite Nazi paramilitary organization ZK: Central Committee of the SED xi ...

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