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Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen) was the name given by Nazi German government 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. The name "Wartheland" refers to the German name given to the Warta river. Its territory roughly corresponded to the previous Province of Posen of the German Empire. Historically, the main parts of the area had been annexed already by Prussia from 1793 until 1807. During the period 1815-1849 an autonomous Polish region linked with Prussia had been formed. The Poles regained independence in 1918-1919 (refer to "Greater Poland through history" section below). 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). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Voivodship wielkopolskie since 1999 Coat of Arms for voivodship wielkopolskie Greater Poland (also Great Poland; Polish: , German: GroÃŸpolen, Latin: Polonia Maior) is a historical region of west-central Poland. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Polish Defensive War of 1939 Conflict World War II Date 1 September - 6 October 1939 Place Poland Result Decisive German and Soviet victory The Polish September Campaign or Defensive War of 1939 (Polish: Wojna obronna 1939 roku) was the conquest of Poland by the armies of Nazi Germany, the Soviet... Warta (Latin: Varta, German: Warthe) is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. ... The Province of Posen (German: , Polish: ) was a province of Prussia from 1846-1918. ... Motto: Gott mit Uns (German: God with usâ€) Anthem: Heil dir im Siegerkranz (unofficial) Territory of the German Empire in 1914, prior to World War I Capital Berlin Language(s) Official: German Unofficial minority languages: Polish (Posen, Lower Silesia,Upper Silesia, Masuria) French (Alsace-Lorraine) Government Constitutional monarchy Emperor - 1871...

The territory was inhabited by Poles and a German minority (16.7 % of total population in 1921). During World War II many Poles and Jews (297.000) were expelled from the territory into the occupied General Government (more than 70,000 from Poznań alone) in actions called the Kleine Planung. Posen town hall with Nazi flag File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Posen town hall with Nazi flag File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... PoznaÅ„ ( ; full official name: The Capital City of PoznaÅ„, Polish: StoÅ‚eczne Miasto PoznaÅ„ (Latin: , German: , Yiddish: ×¤Ö¼×±×–×Ÿ Poyzn) is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The General Government (in full General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement fÃ¼r die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) was the name given by Germany to the governing authority in Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939. ... PoznaÅ„ ( ; full official name: The Capital City of PoznaÅ„, Polish: StoÅ‚eczne Miasto PoznaÅ„ (Latin: , German: , Yiddish: ×¤Ö¼×±×–×Ÿ Poyzn) is a city in west-central Poland with over 578,900 inhabitants (2002). ...

Invasion

After the invasion of Poland, the conquered territory was partitioned among four different Reichsgau and the General Government area further east. Militärbezirk Posen was created in September 1939 and as Reichsgau Posen annexed to Germany on October 8, 1939, with SS Obergruppenfuhrer Arthur Greiser as the first and only Gauleiter. The name Reichsgau Wartheland was introduced on January 29, 1940. Combatants Poland Germany, Soviet Union, Slovakia Commanders Edward Rydz-ÅšmigÅ‚y Fedor von Bock (Army Group North), Gerd von Rundstedt (Army Group South), Mikhail Kovalov (Belorussian Front), Semyon Timoshenko (Ukrainian Front), Ferdinand ÄŒatloÅ¡ (Field Army Bernolak) Strength 39 divisions, 16 brigades, 4,300 guns, 880 tanks, 400 aircraft Total: 950... A Reichsgau was a province within the Greater Germany of 1938 to 1945 (from the start of territorial annexation to the fall of the Third Reich). ... The General Government (in full General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement fÃ¼r die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) was the name given by Germany to the governing authority in Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939. ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (282nd in leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... SS-Obergruppenführer patch SA-Obergruppenführer insignia Obergruppenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA. Translated as Senior Group Leader, the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer was held by members of the Oberste SA-Führerung (Supreme... Arthur Greiser (born January 22, 1897, in Schroda, Province of Posen, West Prussia (Środa, Poland); executed July 14, 1946, at Poznan, Poland) was a Nazi German politician . ... A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ...

Occupation

In the Wartheland, the Nazis' goal was complete "Germanization", the political, cultural, social, and economic assimilation of the territory into the German Reich. In pursuit of this goal, the installed bureaucracy renamed streets and cities and seized tens of thousands of Polish enterprises, from large industrial firms to small shops, without payment to the owners.

The Germanization of the annexed lands also included an ambitious program to resettle Germans from the Baltic and other regions on farms and other homes formerly occupied by Poles and Jews. 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, confiscating their belongings. Many elderly people and children died en route or in makeshift transit camps such as those in the towns of Potulice, Smukal, and Torun. In 1941, the Nazis expelled a further 45,000 people. Potulice (previously also KantÃ³w) is a village (population 1,200) in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland, best known as a site of the World War II German Potulice concentration camp (German Lebrechtsdorf). ...

End of war

At the beginning of 1945, Russian forces drove the retreating Germans through the Polish lands. Caught in severe winter temperatures, most resident German citizens fled, many too late due to restrictions by their own government. An estimated 50,000 of the former German residents perished, some from flight conditions, some from the atrocities committed by conquering Soviet soldiers. The remaining German population was expelled to present Germany.^[1] World War II evacuation and expulsion refers to forced deportation, mass evacuation and displacement of peoples spurred on by the hostilities between Axis and Allied powers, and the border changes enacted in the post-war settlement. ...

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Voivodship wielkopolskie since 1999 Coat of Arms for voivodship wielkopolskie Greater Poland (also Great Poland; Polish: , German: GroÃŸpolen, Latin: Polonia Maior) is a historical region of west-central Poland. ... Image File history File links POL_wojewÃ³dztwo_wielkopolskie_COA.svgâ€Ž pl: Herb wojewÃ³dztwa wielkopolskiego en: File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Greater Poland PoznaÅ„ Greater Poland Voivodeship West Prussia (district) PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship Reichsgau Wartheland Dukes of Greater... In his will, Polish duke Boleslaus III the Wrymouth divided the counrty into the 4-5 hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and a royal province of Cracow for the eldest to be the high-duke of all Poland. ... Map as of 1975 // PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo poznaÅ„skie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Map as of 1975 // Kalisz Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo kaliskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Map as of 1975 // PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo poznaÅ„skie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Map as of 1975 // Kalisz Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo kaliskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Gniezno Voivodeship (Polish: WojewÃ³dztwo GnieÅºnieÅ„skie, Latin: Palatinatus Gnesnensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland for a short time from 1768, when it was cut from the Kalisz Voivodeship, to the partitions of Poland in 1772-1795. ... The Netze District or District of the Netze (German: ; Polish: ) was a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1793. ... South Prussia (1793-1806) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, created in Greater Poland after the second partition of Poland (1793). ... PoznaÅ„ Department (Polish: Departament PoznaÅ„ski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815. ... Kalisz Department (Polish: Departament Kaliski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806- 1815. ... Bydgoszcz Department (Polish: Departament bydgoski) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Polish Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806- 1815. ... Grand Duchy of PoznaÅ„ (Polish: Wielkie KsiÄ™stwo PoznaÅ„skie, German: GroÃŸherzogtum Posen) was an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Prussia in the Polish lands commonly known as Great Poland between the years 1815-1848. ... The Province of Posen (German: , Polish: ) was a province of Prussia from 1846-1918. ... Map as of 1975 // PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo poznaÅ„skie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... 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). ... Map as of 1975 // PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo poznaÅ„skie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Map as of 1975 // PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 PoznaÅ„ Voivodeship 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo poznaÅ„skie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Map as of 1975 // Kalisz Voivodeship (1) 1975-1998 (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo kaliskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Leszno Voivodeship Leszno Voivodeship (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo leszczyÅ„skie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Konin Voivodeship Konin Voivodeship (Polish: wojewÃ³dztwo koniÅ„skie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1975 to 1998, superseded by Greater Poland Voivodeship. ... Pila Voivodeship PiÅ‚a Voivodeship (Polish: WojewÃ³dztwo pilske) was a voivodeship (unit of administrative division and local government) in Poland from 1975 to 1998. ... Capital city PoznaÅ„ Area 29,826 kmÂ² Population (2005) - Density 3,372,417 113. ...

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