Glossary of Abbreviations
| ACLS | American Council of Learned Societies |
| ACofS | Assistant Chief of Staff |
| AMGOT | Allied Military Government (used only in Italy) |
| ASHCAN | Detention center for important German war crimes suspects |
| AT (E) Committee | Administration of Territories Committee (Europe) |
| Buergermeister | Mayor |
| CA | Civil affairs |
| CAD | Civil Affairs Division |
| CAO | Civil Affairs Officer |
| CATP | Civil Affairs Training Program |
| CCAC | Combined Civil Affairs Committee |
| CCAC (L) | Combined Civil Affairs Committee (London) |
| CCMS | Control Commission (Military Section) |
| CCS | Combined Chiefs of Staff |
| CDPX | Combined Displaced Persons Executive |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union |
| CIC | Counterintelligence Corps |
| CMH | Center of Military History |
| COSSAC | Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (designate) |
| CROWCASS | Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects |
| CSU | Christian Social Union |
| DANA | Deutsche Allgemeine Nachrichten Agentur (German General News Agency) |
| DCCAO | Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer |
| DISCC | District Information Services Control Command |
| DP | Displaced person |
| DPX | Displaced Persons Executive |
| DUSTBIN | Detention and interrogation center for German scientific and technical personnel |
| EAC | European Advisory Commission |
| EGAD | European Civil Affairs Division |
| ECAR | European Civil Affairs Regiment |
| ECLIPSE | November 1944 posthostilities plan for Germany |
| Edelzveissbiraten | German adolescent gangs of the Nazi and occupation periods |
| ETO | European Theater of Operations |
| ETOUSA | European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army |
| FEA | Foreign Economics Administration |
| FIAT | Field Information Agency Technical |
| Fragebogen | Questionnaire used by military government to determine Nazi and militarist associations of Germans |
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| G-1 | Personnel section of a divisional or high staff |
| G-2 | Intelligence section |
| G-3 | Operations section |
| G-4 | Supply section |
| G-5 | Civil affairs-military government section |
| Gauleiter | Regional leader of the Nazi party |
| Gemeinde | Municipality |
| Gestapo | Geheimestaatspolizei (secret political police) |
| GOLDCUP | SHAEF plan for assuming control of German governmental agencies |
| HUSKY | Allied Invasion of Sicily, July 1943 |
| ICD | Information Control Division, USFET |
| IPCOG | Informal Policy Committee on Germany |
| JAG | Judge Advocate General |
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Land | German state |
| Laenderrat | Council of Minister Presidents |
| Landkreis | Rural administrative area similar to US county |
| Landrat | Chief administrative officer of a Landkreis |
| Meldebogen | Questionnaire used under the Law for Liberation from Nazism and Militarism to determine Nazi and militarist associations of Germans |
| MFA&A | Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives |
| MG | Military government |
| MGO | Military Government Officer |
| MMLA | Mission Militaire de Liaison Administrative (French organization concerned mainly with DP care) |
| Oberbuergermeister | Chief mayor |
| OCTAGON | U.S.-British conference at Quebec, September 1944 |
| OMG | Office of Military Government |
| OMGUS | Office of Military Government (US) |
| Ortsgruppenleiter | Local Nazi party group leader |
| OSS | Office of Strategic Services |
| OVERCAST | Program to move German scientific and technical specialists to the United States |
| OVERLORD | Invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944 |
| OWI | Office of War Information |
| PAPERCLIP | See OVERCAST |
| PMG | Provost Marshal General |
| RAMP | Recovered Allied military personnel (used to designate freed Allied prisoners of war) |
| RANKIN | Plans for return to the Continent in the event of a Gerlnan withdrawal or collapse |
| RANKIN C | Plan for return to the Continent in the event of a German collapse |
| Regierungsbezirk | District |
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| Reichsbahn | The German railroads |
| ROUNDHAMMER | Variant of ROUNDUP |
| ROUNDUP | Plan for a cross-Channel operation in 1943 |
| SA | Sturmabtedung (paramilitary organization of the Nazi party) |
| SCAEF | Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force |
| SHAEF | Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force |
| SLOE | Special list of equipment |
| Spruchkammer | German denazification tribunals established under the Law for Liberation from Nazism and Militarism |
| SS | Schutzstaffel (the elite military and police organization of the Nazi party) |
| Stadtkreis | The area within the city limits of a city or town |
| SWNCC | State-War-Navy Co-ordinating Committee |
| TALISMAN | August 1944 posthostilities plan for Germany |
| TALLYHO | USFET check and search operation, July 1945 |
| T/O | Table of organization |
| TORCH | Allied invasion of North Africa, November 194? |
| TRIDENT | U.S.-British conference in Washington, May 1943 |
| UNRRA | United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration USFET US Forces in the European Theater USO United Services Organizations |
| Volkssturm | German militia composed of men too young, too old, or physically unfit for regular military service |
| WAC | Women's Army Corps |
| Wac | A member of the Women's Army Corps |
| Wehrmacht | German Armed Forces |
| Werwolf | Nazi-sponsored German guerrilla and resistance movement |
| WSC | Working Security Committee |
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