I.K.L. : Inspektion der Konzentrationslager. Concentration camps Inspection. S.S. organisation under the direction of Glücks, who took over the control and management of the K.L. In 1942, I.K.L. became Amtsgruppe D of the W.V.H.A. The headquarters was located in Oranienburg.

INTELLIGENCE SERVICE : British secret service. Many members of the French Resistance who were more or less opposed to De Gaulle dealt directly with this service by sending it intelligence about German military bases in France. A case in point was the Alliance network that Loustaunau-Lacau created in 1940, which Commandant Faye and, later, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade directed after his arrest. Resistance members in other Nazi-occupied countries did the same thing.

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES Volunteers from 54 countries who fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from October 1936 to autumn 1938. The USSR decided to create the brigades after Great Britain’s and France’s decision not to intervene in the conflict. Of the 30 to 35,000 volunteers, nearly 5,000 were killed in fierce fighting with General Franco’s nationalists.

IRON GUARD: Bulgarian fascist movement created in 1930 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on the sidelines of the organisation founded by his father and uncle. At first King Boris III relied on the Iron Guard to eliminate his political enemies, but then felt threatned himself and had its leader arrested and killed in 1938, but the movement survived. In September 1940, Horia Sima, who had succeeded Codreanu, collaborated with Germany and helped the Nazis put General Ion Antonescu in power. In 1941, Antonescu, with Nazi backing, eliminated the Iron Guard's most extremist elements, including its leader.