- The
Reichsgau Wartheland (initially
Reichsgau Posen, also
Warthegau) was a ****
German Reichsgau formed from
parts of
Polish territory annexed in 1939...
- 29
January 1940,
Reichsgau Posen was
renamed "Reichsgau Wartheland" (
Warthegau).
Reichsgau West
Prussia was
renamed "Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia"....
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Extermination of
mentally ill
Number of
victims Owińska
Warthegau October 1939 1,100 Kościan
Warthegau November 1939 –
March 1940 (2,750) 3,282 Świecie Danzig-West...
- 126 486,400
Franz Hofer from 25 May 1938 36
Wartheland (also
known as
Warthegau),
renaming of Gau
Posen (29
January 1940)
Posen 43,905 4,693,722 Arthur...
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carried out
expulsion of Poles,
called "resettlement actions", in the new
Warthegau territory around Poznań and Łódź.
Following a
personnel change and retraining...
- step upon a more
extensive plan of
creating the
Judenfrei province of
Warthegau, the
ghetto was
transformed into a
major industrial centre, manufacturing...
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control over businesses. ****
plans to "resettle"
Baltic Germans in "
Warthegau" At the port
Baltic German resettlers disembark at the port of Stettin...
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Prussia (the
other German-annexed
section of
occupied Poland aside from the
Warthegau)
during the
Second World War, the
local non-German po****tions of Poles...
- targeted. Tens of
thousands of Jews were
deported from
ghettos in the
Warthegau and East
Upper Silesia to Chełmno and Auschwitz. 300,000 Jews—largely...
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leading to confusion. For example, in
October 1939, the
governor of the
Warthegau,
Gauleiter Arthur Greiser,
established a
central bureau for the registration...
