General Government

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German-occupied territory Nazi administrative region

The General Government was a German-occupied administrative region in central and southern Poland during World War II, known for brutal Nazi rule and widespread persecution.

Aliases (1)

General Government territory ×2

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German-occupied territory → Nazi administrative region →
appliesToJurisdiction	central Poland → southern Poland →
capital	Kraków →
contains	Belzec extermination camp → Galicia District → Kraków District → Kraków Ghetto → Lublin District → Lublin Ghetto → Majdanek concentration camp → Plaszow concentration camp → Radom District → Sobibor extermination camp → Treblinka extermination camp → Warsaw District → Warsaw Ghetto →
continent	Europe →
country	Nazi Germany →
dissolved	1945 →
endTime	1945-01 →
followedBy	Provisional Government of National Unity (Poland) →
governingBody	German civil administration →
headOfGovernment	Hans Frank →
historicalRegion	territory of the Second Polish Republic →
ideology	Nazism →
locatedIn	Central Europe → occupied Poland →
notableEvent	Holocaust in Poland → Operation Reinhard → establishment of Jewish ghettos → mass deportations of Jews →
occupyingPower	Nazi Germany →
officeHeld	Governor-General →
officialLanguage	German → Polish →
partOf	German-occupied Europe → Nazi Germany →
policy	Germanization → economic exploitation → forced labor of Polish population → suppression of Polish culture → systematic persecution of Jews → terror and collective punishment →
positionHeldBy	Hans Frank →
precededBy	Second Polish Republic →
significantFor	implementation of the Holocaust in occupied Poland →
startTime	1939-10-26 →
timePeriod	World War II →

Referenced by (32)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Belzec → Kraków Ghetto → Lublin Ghetto → Sobibor → Warsaw Ghetto → Warsaw Uprising →	locatedIn
Blue Police → Policja Granatowa → Polish Police of the General Government → Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement →	country
District of Galicia → District of Lublin → District of Radom → Warsaw District →	partOf
German AB-Aktion in Poland → Operation Wieniec → Polish Police of the General Government →	location
District of Galicia → District of Radom → Warsaw District →	subdivisionOf
Blue Police ("General Government territory") → Policja Granatowa ("General Government territory") →	jurisdiction
Home Army → Peasant Battalions →	operatedIn
German occupation of Poland →	administeredBy
State Secretary in the General Government →	appliesToJurisdiction
Wartheland →	borderedBy
Warsaw District →	establishedUnder
Warsaw District →	governingRegime
German-occupied Europe →	includesTerritory
Eduard Rydz-Śmigły →	placeOfDeath
Polish People’s Republic →	precededBy