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General Government
Sign in to saveAlso known as General Governorate for the occupied Polish Region, Generalgouvernement, Nazi Poland
German-occupied zone in Poland in World War II
Key facts
- Status
- Administratively, autonomous component, of Germany
- Capital
- Litzmannstadt , (12 October – 4 November 1939) , Krakau , (4 November 1939 – 19 January 1945)
- Common languages
- German (official) , Polish , Ukrainian , Yiddish
- Government
- Civil administration
- 1939 1945
- Hans Frank
- 1939 1940
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- 1940 1945
- Josef Bühler
- Historical era
- Occupation of Poland , in World War II
- Invasion of poland
- 1 September 1939
- Establishment
- 26 October 1939
- Galicia added
- 1 August 1941
- Poland declared restored
- 22 July 1944
- Ussr captures warsaw
- 17 January 1945
- Disintegration
- 19 January 1945
- Currency
- Zloty , Reichsmark
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Contains
- District of Galicia
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Kraków
- Official language
- German
- Currency
- Młynarki
- Shares border with
- Nazi Germany
- Follows
- Second Polish Republic
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- Commons category
- General Government
- inception
- 1939-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1945-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:General Government
- maintained by
- Hans Frank
- language used
- Yiddish
- native label
- Generalgouvernement
- P8168
- Bryoria fuscescens
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofPoland Ukraine
The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement, IPA: [ɡenəˈʁaːlɡuvɛʁnəˌmã] ; Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія, romanized: Heneralna huberniia), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Territories (German: Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II. The newly occupied Second Polish Republic was split into three zones: the General Government in its centre, Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany in the west, and Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union in the east. The territory was expanded substantially in 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, to include the new District of Galicia. The area of the Generalgouvernement roughly corresponded with the Austrian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “General Government” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.