Operation Reinhard:
Glossary

   Einsatzgruppen: Battalion-sized, mobile, armed units of police,
	primarily Security Police and SD officials, which were used
	to attack and execute perceived enemies in conquered territories.
        (Breitman, 311)

   Einsatzkommando: Company-sized component of the Einsatzgruppen 
   	(Breitman, 311)

   Gauleiter: Supreme territorial or regional party authority(-ies)
	(The term is both singular and plural). The Nazi Party divided
	Germany and some annexed territories into geographical units
	called Gaue, headed by a Gauleiter. (Breitman, 311)

   General Government: The Nazi-ruled state in central and eastern
   	Poland. Headed by Governor Hans Frank. (Breitman, 311)

   Final Solution: Euphemism for the extermination of European Jewry

   Judenrat: Jewish community authority, appointed by the Nazis for
        ghetto and village administration.

   Trawniki: Labor camp, established in the Fall of 1941, in Trawniki,
        S.E. of Lublin, Poland. Trawniki was part of a network of labor
        camps and death camps controlled by Globocnik. Trawniki was
        destroyed when Himmler ordered the death camps closed, and the
        ground plowed and converted to farm use. See Encyclopedia, Vol.
        IV, pp 1480-1481.

   SD (Sicherheitsdienst): The SS Security Service

   Sonderkommandos: Division of Einsatzgruppen, generally smaller than
 	Einsatzkommando, but also a more general term for special
        commando units assigned particular functions. (Breitman, 311)

   Military rank
 

   - here's a list from Breitman (314) which shows SS
   ranks and the Western military equivalent:

   Oberstgruppenführer 		General
   Obergruppenführer		Lt. General
   Gruppenführer		Major General
   Brigadeführer		Brigadier General
   Oberführer        		between Brigadier & Colonel
   Standartenführer		Colonel
   Obersturmbannführer		Lt. Colonel
   Sturmbannführer 		Major
   Hauptsturmführer		Captain
   Obersturmführer		1st. Lieutenant
   Unterscharführer		Corporal
   Rottenführer			Private, First Class
   Sturmann			Private
   SS-Mann			no equivalent