Wartheland

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Wartheland was a Nazi German-occupied region of western Poland during World War II, notorious for its role in the Holocaust and the implementation of genocidal policies against Jews and other targeted groups.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi administrative region
historical region
occupied territory
administrativeStatus Reichsgau Wartheland
surface form: "Reichsgau"
annexedBy Nazi Germany
annexedFrom Second Polish Republic
borderedBy General Government
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
capital Poznań
surface form: "Posen"

Poznań
country Nazi Germany
demographicPolicy expulsion of local population
settlement of ethnic Germans
endCause defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
endTime 1945
governedBy Arthur Greiser
Gauleiter
hadCamp Chelmno
surface form: "Chełmno extermination camp"

forced labor camps
Łódź Ghetto
historicalSignificance major site of the Holocaust in occupied Poland
includedCity Kalisz NERFINISHED
Poznań
Włocławek NERFINISHED
Łódź NERFINISHED
integratedInto Nazi Germany
surface form: "Greater German Reich"
languageOfAdministration German
locatedIn Central Europe
occupied Poland
namedAfter Warta River NERFINISHED
notableEvent mass deportations of Jews
mass expulsions of Poles
officialName Reichsgau Wartheland
partOf German occupation of Poland
surface form: "German-occupied Poland"

Third Reich
policyImplemented Germanization
Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
expropriation of Polish property
forced displacement
persecution of Jews
persecution of Poles
persecution of Roma
startTime 1939
territoryReturnedTo Poland
timePeriod World War II
usedFor economic exploitation
implementation of genocidal policies

Referenced by (3)

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

Chelmno locatedIn Wartheland
subject surface form: "Chełmno extermination camp"
Kulmhof an der Nehr locatedIn Wartheland
Łódź Ghetto locatedIn Wartheland

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