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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 ...
A Reichsgau (plural Reichsgaue) ... Wartheland: To be formed out of the Reichsgau Wartheland, roughly corresponding to the former Province of Posen: Upper 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]
Wartheland: Wartheland: Posen: 1939 Formed primarily in the Polish region of the Poznań Voivodeship and incorporated areas of surrounding Voivodeships after the German occupation of Poland. Called Reichsgau Posen until January 1940, when it was renamed for the Warthe (Warta) river.
Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Germany annexed the area into the new territory of Reichsgau Wartheland. The camp, which was specifically intended for no other purpose than mass murder, operated from December 8, 1941 , to April 11, 1943 , parallel to Operation Reinhard during the deadliest phase of the Holocaust , and again from June ...
In November 1940, Gauleiter Arthur Greiser of Reichsgau Wartheland argued that the counties of Tomaschow Mazowiecki and Petrikau should be transferred from the General Government's Radom district to his Gau. Hitler agreed, but since Frank refused to surrender the counties, the resolution of the border question was postponed until after the ...
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 ).