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The Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen, also Warthegau) was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from parts of Polish territory annexed in 1939 during World War II. It comprised the region of Greater Poland and adjacent areas. Parts of Warthegau matched the similarly named pre-Versailles Prussian province of Posen.
On 29 January 1940, Reichsgau Posen was renamed "Reichsgau Wartheland" (Warthegau). [10] Reichsgau West Prussia was renamed "Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia". The remaining annexed areas were not made separate provinces but included in the existing provinces of East Prussia and Upper Silesia per § 4 of Hitler's decree. [10] Arthur Greiser was ...
To be formed out of the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen, roughly corresponding to the former Province of West Prussia Wartheland Wartheland: To be formed out of the Reichsgau Wartheland, roughly corresponding to the former Province of Posen: Upper Silesia: Oberschlesien: To be formed out of the Province of Upper Silesia: Lower Silesia ...
The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement; Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (German: Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in ...
Of the territories annexed from Poland and the Free City of Danzig in 1939, Reichsgau Wartheland and Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia were created. Annexed territories of pre-war Poland not within these two Reichsgaue were incorporated into the neighboring Gaue East Prussia and Silesia.
From the city of Poznań in Reichsgau Wartheland alone, the Germans expelled 70,000 Poles to the General Government. [25] The deportations conducted under the leadership of SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Koppe, were supervised by SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog, who was also in charge of the daily operation of the Chełmno extermination camp. [26]
Reichsgau Wartheland Poznań Voivodeship ( Polish : Województwo Poznańskie ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1919–1939, created after World War I from the Prussian-German province of Poznań ( Province of Posen ).
Reichsgau Flanders Reichsgau Wallonia In the coming Nazi New Order , other lands were considered for annexation sooner or later, for instance North Schleswig , German-speaking Switzerland , and the zone of intended German settlement in north-eastern France , where a Gau or a Reichskommissariat centred on Burgundy was intended for creation, and ...