Wartheland (during World War II)

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Wartheland (during World War II) was a Nazi German administrative region in occupied western Poland, established after the 1939 invasion and used for extensive Germanization and persecution policies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi administrative region
Reichsgau
occupied territory
abolished 1945
adminCenter Posen
linked to: Poznań
annexedFrom Second Polish Republic
borderedBy General Government
Old Reich
linked to: Holy Roman Empire

Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
capital Posen
linked to: Poznań
country Nazi Germany
currency Reichsmark
dissolvedFollowing defeat of Nazi Germany
established 1939
establishedAfter German invasion of Poland
linked to: Invasion of Poland
firstGauleiter Arthur Greiser
GermanNameOfCapital Posen
linked to: Poznań
GermanNameOfIncludedCity Litzmannstadt
governedBy Gauleiter
hadGhetto Łódź Ghetto
historicalPeriod World War II
includedCity Łódź
includedRegion Greater Poland
Kalisz area
Kujawy area
linked to: Vistula region
integratedInto German customs and legal system
locatedIn Central Europe
occupied Poland
namedAfter Warta River NERFINISHED
officialLanguage German
partOf Greater German Reich
linked to: Nazi Germany
persecutionTarget Catholic clergy
Jewish population
Polish intelligentsia
Roma
policy Germanization
ban on Polish language in public life
confiscation of property
ethnic cleansing
forced resettlement
persecution of Jews
persecution of Poles
suppression of Polish culture
PolishNameOfCapital Poznań
postwarRegion Greater Poland Voivodeship
successorTerritory Republic of Poland
usedFor expulsion of Polish population
implementation of Nazi racial policy
settlement of ethnic Germans
ŁódźGhettoFunction major Jewish ghetto and transit point to extermination camps

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Chełmno nad Nerem locatedInHistoricalRegion Wartheland (during World War II)