District of Galicia

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Nazi administrative district occupied territory

The District of Galicia was an administrative region created by Nazi Germany during World War II in occupied southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, known for brutal occupation policies and mass atrocities against Jews and other civilians.

Aliases (3)

Galicia ×16
Galicia District ×2
District of Galicia (General Government) ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi administrative district → occupied territory →
administrativeLanguage	German →
capital	Lwów → surface form: "Lemberg" Lwów → surface form: "Lviv" Lwów →
containsCity	Drohobych → Lwów → surface form: "Lviv" Sambor → Ivano-Frankivsk → surface form: "Stanisławów" Ternopil →
country	Nazi Germany →
createdBy	Nazi Germany →
createdDuring	German occupation of Poland → Soviet-German Front → surface form: "German–Soviet War"
endTime	1944 →
ethnicGroupsTargeted	Jews → Poles → Ukrainians →
governingAuthority	German civil administration →
historicalEra	German occupation of Poland → surface form: "Nazi occupation of Poland" German occupation of Ukraine → surface form: "Nazi occupation of Ukraine"
knownFor	brutal occupation policies → mass atrocities against Jews → mass atrocities against civilians →
locatedIn	Eastern Europe → southeastern Poland → Western Ukraine → surface form: "western Ukraine"
occupyingPower	Germany →
partOf	General Government →
partOfEvent	German occupation of Ukraine → Holocaust → surface form: "Holocaust in Eastern Europe"
partOfHistoricalRegion	Galicia →
predecessor	Soviet-occupied eastern Poland → Soviet Ukraine → surface form: "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"
startTime	1941 →
subdivisionOf	General Government →
successor	Polish People’s Republic → surface form: "People's Republic of Poland" Soviet administration → Soviet Ukraine → surface form: "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic"
timePeriod	World War II →
typeOfCrimes	deportations to extermination camps → forced labor → ghettoization of Jews → mass shootings →