General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)

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The General Government was the Nazi German colonial administration established in central and southern Poland during World War II, serving as a key site of occupation, exploitation, and the implementation of the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi colonial administration
administrative district of Nazi Germany
occupation regime
administrativeCenter Wawel Castle in Kraków
annexedTerritoryFrom Second Polish Republic
capital Kraków
collaborationistInstitution Blue Police (Polish police under German command)
contains Belzec extermination camp
linked to: Belzec

Kraków Ghetto
Lublin Ghetto
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
linked to: Majdanek

Plaszow concentration camp
Sobibor extermination camp
linked to: Sobibor

Treblinka extermination camp
linked to: Treblinka

Warsaw Ghetto
continent Europe
country Nazi Germany
currency złoty of the General Government
dissolutionCause advance of the Red Army in 1944–1945
endTime 1945-01
establishedAfter Invasion of Poland
establishedBy Adolf Hitler
governingIdeology Nazism
governorGeneral Hans Frank
Ludwig Fischer (acting in some capacities)
legalStatus not formally incorporated into the German Reich
locatedIn Central Europe
occupied Poland
notIncluding Polish territories annexed by the Soviet Union
Polish territories directly annexed to the German Reich
occupyingPower Nazi Germany
officialLanguage German
Polish
partOf Nazi German occupation of Poland
policy Germanization
cultural repression of Poles
economic exploitation
forced labor
persecution and extermination of Jews
populationGroupTargeted Jews
Poles
Roma
Soviet prisoners of war
resistanceFaced Home Army (Armia Krajowa)
Polish Underground State
securityForces German police
Gestapo
SS
startTime 1939-10-26
subdivision District of Galicia
District of Kraków
linked to: Kraków

District of Lublin
District of Radom
District of Warsaw
linked to: Warsaw
timePeriod World War II
usedFor implementation of the Holocaust
operation of extermination camps

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wannsee Conference attendeeOrganization General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
subject linked to: WannseeConference
Warsaw Uprising locatedIn Nazi-occupied Poland
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Final Solution location General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Ludwig Fischer workLocation General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Ludwig Fischer employer General Government (Nazi civil administration in occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Josef Bühler employer General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Lublin Ghetto administeredBy German civil administration in the General Government
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Małkinia Górna partOfStateDuringWWII General Government (Nazi‑occupied Poland)
subject linked to: Malkinia Górna
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Radom Ghetto locatedIn Generalgouvernement
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Białystok Ghetto locatedIn General Government (de facto Nazi-occupied Polish territory context)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Operation Reinhard implementedIn General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Warsaw District associatedWith German General Government administration
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
German AB-Aktion in Poland planningBy German General Government authorities
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Directorate of Civil Resistance operatedIn General Government (German-occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Reinhard program authorities appliesToJurisdiction General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement operatedIn General Government (Nazi‑occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Policja Granatowa operatedIn General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Policja Granatowa subordinateTo German General Government administration
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Polish Police of the General Government subordinateTo German occupation authorities in the General Government
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Wawer massacre jurisdiction General Government (German-occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia borderedBy General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Governor-General of the General Government partOf Nazi occupation administration in Poland
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Josef Oberhauser placeOfActivity General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Einsatz Reinhardt location General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Einsatz Reinhardt implementedBy German occupation authorities in Poland
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion location General Government (German-occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS appliesToJurisdiction General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Altreich and annexed territories distinctFrom General Government (occupied Poland)
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Blue Police operatedIn General Government of occupied Poland
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Blue Police establishedBy German General Government administration
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst operatedIn Generalgouvernement
linked to: General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)