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Degeto Weltspiegel were short Nazi propaganda/news films that played in German cinemas from 1939 to 1943. There were a total of 50 reels. They were produced by Tobis Film on 35 mm film by special units within the German Army. The following list is not complete. Below are other specials within a certain theme. Spanien und der 50. Geburtstag des ...
By the end of the Polish Defensive War the Soviet Union had taken over 52.1% of the territory of Poland (circa 200,000 km 2), with over 13,700,000 people.The estimates vary; Professor Elżbieta Trela-Mazur gives the following numbers in regards to the ethnic composition of these areas: 38% Poles (ca. 5.1 million people), 37% Ukrainians, 14.5% Belarusians, 8.4% Jews, 0.9% Russians and 0.6% Germans.
Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931 in Danzig) is a German film actress. [47] She has appeared in 100 films since 1954. Convicted of manslaughter in 1977. Miltiades Caridis (1923 in Danzig – 1998 in Athens) was a German-Greek conductor, his family moved to Greece in 1938. Zygmunt Chychła (1926 in Gdańsk – 2009 in Hamburg) was a Polish boxer. [48]
In Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, 123,000 [30] to 124,000 [55] were displaced until the end of 1942, 53,000 of whom were deported to the General Government, [30] the others were forced into camps where they were "racially evaluated". [30] In the Warthegau, 630,000 were displaced between 1939 and 1944.
The first 150 inmates, imprisoned on 2 September 1939, were selected among Poles and Jews arrested in Danzig immediately after the outbreak of war. [3] The inmate population rose to 6,000 in the following two weeks, on 15 September 1939. Until 1942, nearly all of the prisoners were Polish.
Danzig, Danzig Region, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Greater German Reich Siege of Danzig: Dietrich von Saucken: 2nd Belorussian Front. Polish rebels. 7 March 1945 15 March 1945 30 March 1945 2 weeks and 1 day Now called Gdańsk. Demyansk, Army Group Rear Area Command: Demyansk Pocket: 22 February 1942: 8 February 1942: 20 May 1942
The Polish Corridor (German: Polnischer Korridor; Polish: korytarz polski), also known as the Pomeranian Corridor, Danzig Corridor or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Eastern Pomerania), which provided the Second Polish Republic with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of ...
Left to right (top to bottom): Concentration camp in Płaszów near Kraków, built by Nazi Germany in 1942 • Inmates of Birkenau returning to barracks, 1944 • Slave labour for the Generalplan Ost, making Lebensraum latifundia • Majdanek concentration camp (June 24, 1944) • Death gate at Stutthof concentration camp • Map of Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland, marked with ...