What the records say
- When
- 1 Aug 1941
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 53.15° N, 23.47° E
- Government
- Germany
- Former government
- Soviet Union
- History
- During Operation Barbarossa, Germany captured the Soviet-occupied regions of Poland. Bialystok was to be ethnically purified.
- Source map
- Map of Ukraine · 1943 · 1:2,000,000 · Freytag and Berndt, Vienna
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bialystok District
Administrative unit of Germany (1941–1945)
Bialystok District was an administrative unit of Nazi Germany created during the World War II invasion of the Soviet Union. It was to the south-east of East Prussia, in present-day northeastern Poland as well as in smaller sections of adjacent present-day Belarus and Lithuania.
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The source
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
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