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  Reichsgau Wartheland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen) was the name given by Nazis to the largest subdivision of the territory of Greater Poland which was directly incorporated into the German Reich after defeating the Polish army in 1939.
Reichsgau Wartheland was created on October 8, 1939, with Arthur Greiser as the first and only Gauleiter.
In the Wartheland, the Nazis' goal was complete "Germanization", the political, cultural, social, and economic assimilation of the territory into the German Reich.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reichsgau Wartheland, which included the entire Poznan province, most of the Lodz province, five Pomeranian districts, and one county of the Warsaw province; the remaining area of Pomerania...
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen), which included the entire Poznan Voivodship, most of the Lodz Voivodship, five counties of the Pomeranian voivodship, and one county of the Warsaw...
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen), which included the entire Poznan voivodship, most of the Lodz voivodship, five couties of the Pomeranian voivodship, and one county of the Warsaw...
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 Reichsgau Wartheland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen) was the name given by Nazis to the territory of Greater Poland which was occupied annexed and directly into the German Reich after defeating the Polish army in 1939 (as opposed to the General Government GG).
In the Wartheland the Nazis' goal was "Germanization" to assimilate the territory politically culturally and economically into the German Reich.
By the end 1940 the SS had expelled 325 000 and Jews from the Wartheland and the corridor and transported them to the General Government confiscating their belongings.
www.freeglossary.com /Warthegau   (654 words)

  
 Reichsgau Wartheland: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen (Reichsgau Posen: reichsgau posen was the name briefly given by the nazis to the territory of greater...
This policy was pursued by the newly-appointed Gauleiter of the Warthegau, Artur Griser (Artur Griser: arthur greiser (born january 22, 1897, in schroda, province of posen, west...
By the end of 1940, the SS had expelled 325,000 Poles and Jews from the Wartheland and the Danzig corridor and transported them to the General Government (General Government: the general government (in full general government for the occupied polish areas, in...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/reichsgau_wartheland   (992 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Reichsgau Posen
Reichsgau Posen was the name briefly given by the Nazis to the territory of Greater Poland which was occupied, annexed and directly incorporated into the German Reich after defeating the Polish army in 1939 (as opposed to the General Government, GG).
For the rest of World War II, the official Nazi Germany name was Reichsgau Wartheland.
The main parts of Reichsgau Wartheland had been part of Prussia (later Germany) for most of the period between 1793 and 1919 (refer to "See Also" section below).
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 General Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen), which included the entire Poznan Voivodship, most of the Lodz Voivodship, five couties of the Pomeranian voivodship, and one county of the Warsaw voivodship;
the remaining area of Pomeranian voivodship, which was incorporated into the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen (initially Reichsgau Westpreussen);
Ciechanow District (Regierungsbezirk Zichenau) consisting of the five northern counties of Warszawa Voivodship (Plock, Plonsk, Sierpc, Ciechanow and Mlawa), which became a part of East Prussia;
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 Wikipedia: Poznan
With the outbreak of the World War II Poznań; was annexed by Germany, but became not a part of Prussia again.
The province was reorganized into Reichsgau Posen and later renamed Reichsgau Wartheland (Warta province).
The German army, police and administration started a programme of 're-germanisation of Poznań;', and some 100,000 of inhabitants were expulsed to Central Poland General Government.
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 The Mazal Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The basis for the prosecution's case against the defendant in this regard is to be found in a series of letters with reference to the tuberculosis menace in the Reichsgau Wartheland, which had been overrun by the German Reich and settled by its citizens.
During the year 1941 the German Government began a program of extermination of the Jewish population of the eastern occupied territories.
On 1 May 1942 Greiser, the German Military Governor of Reichsgau Wartheland, wrote Himmler advising him that "as to the 100,000 Jews in the district, the `special treatment' approved by Himmler was about completed." The letter then continued:
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 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Concentration camp vs. death camp
Greiser protested on the basis that the Lodz Ghetto was already overcrowded (the Reichsgau Wartheland contained about 300,000 Jews, most of them stuffed into the Lodz Ghetto), but his protests were overridden by Himmler.
The Sonderkommando was under the command of the HSSPF Wartheland, a certain Koppe, who testified after the war that he "lent" it to Greiser.
At the same time, the smaller ghettos of the Wartheland were closed down; those of their inhabitants assessed as fit for labour were sent to the Lodz Ghetto to take the place of the unfit Jews removed from there, while those assessed as unfit for labour were sent directly to Chelmno.
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 ScienceDaily: Reichsgau wartheland
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 Country Reports
As regards the losses suffered by museums or collections of museum character it may be said that we have obtained about 80-85% of the data (taking into account the museums from which, following preliminary reconnaissance, we had expected to receive this information).
An investigation was undertaken of the system and scale of the sacral art robberies committed in the so-called lands incorporated into the Reich and, in particular, in the "Reichsgau Wartheland" (Warta River Land) which was administratively the largest incorporated territory.
This was done partly because of two very precious losses: two 16th-century triptychs which were robbed by the Germans from the territory of the Wielkopolska region and until now deemed lost.
www.dhh-3.de /biblio/bremen/sow3/crpoland.htm   (926 words)

  
 General Government: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Two decrees by Hitler (Hitler: German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)) (8 October and 12 October 1939) provided for the division of the annexed areas of Poland into the following administrative units:
Reichsgau Wartheland (Reichsgau Wartheland: reichsgau wartheland (initially reichsgau posen) was the name given by nazis...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) (initially Reichsgau Posen (Posen: without the special characters, the name is sometimes also spelled poznan in english, it...
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 8 October 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Western Poland is annexed to Germany, and the land partitioned into five.
Two new Reichsgau are formed: Reichsgau Danzig West Prussia, under the command of Albert Forster Reichsgau Wartheland, under the command of Arthur Greiser The remaining three partitions constituted of surplus lebensraum, two of which were added to the already existing Reichsgau of Silesia and East Prussia.
The third remaining partition in Eastern German-occupied Poland was named the General Government and placed under the command of Hans Frank.
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 Conclusion
Wartheland was a region of Poland that had belonged to Germany before 1919.
Given to Poland after the war, it was officially restored to Germany (as Conway relates) by a decree of Hitler in October 1939.
Officially designated Reichsgau Wartheland, it was referred to as the Warthegau.
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 kaeding1
In 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, Reichsgau (administrative district) Posen was formed.
Reichsgau Posen consisted of the ceded territory and several counties of "Congress Poland." This area was later named Reichsgau Wartheland.
The counties of Wirsitz and Bromberg were added to "Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia".
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 faq.posen including South and New East Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Germany reoccupied the old Posen province 1939-1945, extended it, and named it Reichsgau Wartheland.
The area was cleansed of its ethnic German population and returned to Poland in 1945.
[Historical gazetteer of former areas belonging to Germany (period 1914 to 1945), volume 8 Wartheland] Buch 1.
users.foxvalley.net /~goertz/faqpos.html   (4056 words)

  
 Origins of the Nazi Genocide
In fact, mass killings of the handicapped had already occurred before the Aktion T4killing centers became operational, namely in the newly-annexed Polish territories of the Reichsgaue Danzig-Westpreussen and Wartheland.
Beginning in early 1940, a special unit, the Sonderkommando Lange, named after its commander SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Herbert Lange, started evacuating state hospitals and nursing homes in Reichsgau Wartheland and dispatched the patients with specially-constructed gas vans.
The first use of a stationary gas chamber is documented for late 1939 in Wartheland.
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 The world's top inowroclaw websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During World War II, Inowrocław was taken by the German army on September 11, 1939 and became part of the German military district (Militärbezirk) of Posen and renamed Hohensalza.
The city was incorporated into the German empire on November 26, 1939, initially part of Reichsgau Posen (1939), and later Reichsgau Wartheland (1939-1945).
The area was taken by the Red Army in January 1945 and has since then been part of Poland.
www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/inowroclaw   (251 words)

  
 Łódź - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
However, the Wehrmacht captured the city on September 8.
Despite plans for the city to become a Polish enclave, attached to the Generalgouvernement, the Nazi hierarchy respected the wishes of the local governor of Reichsgau Wartheland, Arthur Greiser, and of many of the ethnic Germans living in the city, and annexed it to the Reich in November 1939.
The city received the new name of Litzmannstadt after the German general Karl Litzmann, who captured the city during World War I.
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 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Lodz Ghetto transpots to?
Claims have been made elsewhere on this forum that up to 300,000 Jews were sent to Chelmno.
Since the Lodz Ghetto contained the main concentration of Jews by far in the Reichsgau Wartheland, and since Chelmno was set up specifically to kill 100,000 Jews from that Reichsgau, if the number sent to Chelmno from Lodz Ghetto was 80,000, where did the other 220,000 come from?
Once again another situation where historians cannot agree on figures.
forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=45105   (995 words)

  
 Uta Larkey: Bridging the Silence
Indoctrinated and brainwashed, most of the non-Jewish women interviewed in the film are excited rather than frightened by the beginning of the war.
They were “sentenced” to work in a factory for six weeks and are proud to help their “fatherland.” In 1941, the girls were sent to “Reichsgau Wartheland” in the East (today Poland) to help ethnic German farmers (Volksdeutsche and Wolhyniendeutsche) in the fields.
Tiedemann only touches upon the women’s recollections of the “Warthegau” where they became aware of Polish slave laborers, Jewish ghettos and camps.
www.dickinson.edu /glossen/heft17/kinderland.html   (2950 words)

  
 Review of The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
Aktion T4 killing centers became operational, namely in the newly-annexed Polish territories of the Reichsgaue Danzig-Westpreussen and Wartheland.
Also, following the initiative of the Gauleiter of the Prussian province of Pomerania, transports of German handicapped were sent to killing sites in the east where a local SS battalion (
, named after its commander SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Herbert Lange, started evacuating state hospitals and nursing homes in Reichsgau Wartheland and dispatched the patients with specially-constructed gas vans.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewsh35.htm   (2583 words)

  
 New Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It has 78 pages with 65 full page photographs.
One town in the Reichsgau Wartheland later became well known because of its Jewish Ghetto, Litzmannstadt (there are also photos of Litzmannstadt in the book but not from the ghetto).
The book is very interesting and in very good condition.
www.epier.com /iq.asp?1210697   (259 words)

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