What the records say
- When
- 8 Oct 1939
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 50.99° N, 21.51° E
- Government
- Germany (Occupied)
- Former government
- Poland
- History
- The "rump" part of Poland after country was divided between the Soviet Union and Germany, the General Government was put under the control of Nazi lawyer Hans Frank. It became a dumping ground for undesirables and was victimized by mass violence.
- Source map
- The German Eastern Space · 1941 · 1:1,000,000 · Richard Schwarz, Berlin
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
General Government
German-occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945
The General Government, formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Territories, was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II.
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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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