Reichsgau Wartheland

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Reichsgau Wartheland was a Nazi German administrative region established in occupied western Poland during World War II, notorious as a center of Germanization policies, repression, and mass murder of the local Polish and Jewish populations.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi administrative region
Reichsgau
capital Posen NERFINISHED
Poznań NERFINISHED
containsAdministrativeUnit Regierungsbezirk Hohensalza
Regierungsbezirk Litzmannstadt
Regierungsbezirk Posen
containsCamp Chełmno extermination camp
Poznań Fort VII concentration camp
labor camps for Poles and Jews
Łódź Ghetto
containsCity Gniezno
Inowrocław NERFINISHED
Jarocin
Kalisz NERFINISHED
Konin
Koło
Krotoszyn NERFINISHED
Leszno NERFINISHED
Ostrów Wielkopolski
Sieradz NERFINISHED
Turek
Września
Włocławek NERFINISHED
Zduńska Wola NERFINISHED
Zgierz NERFINISHED
Łódź NERFINISHED
country Nazi Germany
dissolutionCause advance of the Red Army
defeat of Nazi Germany
endTime 1945-01
ethnicPolicy expulsion of Polish population
settlement of Volksdeutsche
followedBy People's Republic of Poland
Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland
governor Arthur Greiser
historicalPeriod World War II
legalStatus annexed territory of the German Reich
locatedIn Central Europe
occupied Poland
namedAfter Warta River NERFINISHED
notoriousFor extermination policies
mass murder of Jews
mass murder of Poles
repression of local population
occupyingPower Nazi Germany
partOf Altreich and annexed territories
Greater German Reich
policyImplemented Germanization
ban on Polish language in public life
closure of Polish schools
confiscation of property
ethnic cleansing of Poles
forced resettlement
mass expulsions
persecution of Jews
suppression of Polish culture
precededBy Second Polish Republic
startTime 1939-10-26
subdivisionType Gau
timeInForce 1939-1945
usedFor implementation of Generalplan Ost
settlement of ethnic Germans


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