General Government

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German-occupied territory
Nazi administrative region
appliesToJurisdiction central Poland
Lesser Poland
surface form: southern Poland
capital Kraków
contains Belzec
surface form: Belzec extermination camp

District of Galicia
surface form: Galicia District

Lesser Poland Voivodeship
surface form: Kraków District

Kraków Ghetto
District of Lublin
surface form: Lublin District

Lublin Ghetto
Majdanek
surface form: Majdanek concentration camp

Plaszow concentration camp
District of Radom
surface form: Radom District

Sobibor
surface form: Sobibor extermination camp

Treblinka
surface form: 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
surface form: 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

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Horst Köhler placeOfBirth General Government
SS personnel of Aktion Reinhard operatedIn General Government
Wartheland (during World War II) borderedBy General Government
subject surface form: Wartheland
Blue Police country General Government
Zdzisław Lubomirski deathPlace General Government
Operation Heads location General Government
Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik locatedIn General Government
PRL predecessor General Government
subject surface form: Polish People's Republic
Juliusz Schauder placeOfDeath General Government