Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia

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Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia was a Nazi administrative region established during World War II that incorporated the Free City of Danzig and surrounding Polish territories into the Third Reich.

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi administrative region ⓘ
Reichsgau ⓘ
adminCenter Gdańsk ⓘ
surface form: Danzig
borderedBy Baltic Sea ⓘ
East Prussia ⓘ
General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) ⓘ
Reichsgau Wartheland ⓘ
capital Gdańsk ⓘ
surface form: Danzig

Gdańsk ⓘ
conflict World War II ⓘ
containsTerritory West Prussia ⓘ
surface form: Chełmno Land

Free City of Danzig ⓘ
Pomeranian Voivodeship ⓘ
surface form: Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939)

West Prussia ⓘ
parts of East Prussia ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Nazi Germany ⓘ
dateEstablished 1939-10-26 ⓘ
dissolved 1945 ⓘ
endTime 1945 ⓘ
establishedBy Adolf Hitler ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ
firstGauleiter Albert Forster ⓘ
followedBy Gdańsk Voivodeship (post-1945) ⓘ
Pomeranian Voivodeship ⓘ
surface form: Pomeranian Voivodeship (post-1945)

Republic of Poland ⓘ
Gauleiter Albert Forster ⓘ
governedBy Gauleiter ⓘ
governmentType authoritarian one-party state subdivision ⓘ
historicalEra Nazi era ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
ideology Nazism ⓘ
language German ⓘ
Polish ⓘ
legalStatus annexed territory of Nazi Germany ⓘ
locatedIn Central Europe ⓘ
occupied Poland ⓘ
notableCity Bydgoszcz ⓘ
Gdańsk ⓘ
surface form: Danzig

Elbing ⓘ
Gdynia ⓘ
Toruń ⓘ
occupationOf Polish territories ⓘ
partOf Nazi Germany ⓘ
surface form: Greater German Reich

Nazi civil administration in occupied Poland ⓘ
policy Germanization of Polish population ⓘ
expulsion of Poles ⓘ
persecution of Jews ⓘ
precededBy Free City of Danzig ⓘ
Pomeranian Voivodeship ⓘ
surface form: Pomeranian Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)
startTime 1939 ⓘ
subdivisionOf Third Reich ⓘ
timeZone Central European Time ⓘ
usedCurrency Reichsmark ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

German occupation of Poland → administeredBy → Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ⓘ
Wartheland → borderedBy → Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ⓘ
Westerplatte Peninsula → controlledBy → Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Free City of Danzig (special status area)
German occupation of Hel Peninsula → locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity → Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Free City of Danzig (annexed areas)
Wartheland (during World War II) → borderedBy → Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia ⓘ
subject surface form: Wartheland