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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 Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [4]
Subdivision of Polish territories during World War II can be divided into several phases. The territories of the Second Polish Republic were first administered first by Nazi Germany (in the west) and the Soviet Union (in the east), then (following the German invasion of the Soviet Union) in their entirety by Nazi Germany, and finally (following Soviet push westwards) by the Soviet Union again.
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942 Gaue, Reichsgaue and other administrative divisions of Germany proper in January 1944. According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin was split from Germany for at least 15 years. In 1935, the Saarland rejoined Germany in a lawful way after a plebiscite.
See also: Free City of Danzig – 1930: Brandenburg, the Teutonic Order and Prussia. ... A map of Europe circa 1942, at the height of Nazi expansion.
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 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.