Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia

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Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia was a Nazi administrative region established during World War II that incorporated the Free City of Danzig and surrounding Polish territories into the Third Reich.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi administrative region
Reichsgau
adminCenter Gdańsk
surface form: Danzig
borderedBy Baltic Sea
East Prussia
General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland)
Reichsgau Wartheland
capital Gdańsk
surface form: Danzig

Gdańsk
conflict World War II
containsTerritory West Prussia
surface form: Chełmno Land

Free City of Danzig
Pomeranian Voivodeship
surface form: Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939)

West Prussia
parts of East Prussia
continent Europe
country Nazi Germany
dateEstablished 1939-10-26
dissolved 1945
endTime 1945
establishedBy Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany
firstGauleiter Albert Forster
followedBy Gdańsk Voivodeship (post-1945)
Pomeranian Voivodeship
surface form: Pomeranian Voivodeship (post-1945)

Republic of Poland
Gauleiter Albert Forster
governedBy Gauleiter
governmentType authoritarian one-party state subdivision
historicalEra Nazi era
World War II
ideology Nazism
language German
Polish
legalStatus annexed territory of Nazi Germany
locatedIn Central Europe
occupied Poland
notableCity Bydgoszcz
Gdańsk
surface form: Danzig

Elbing
Gdynia
Toruń
occupationOf Polish territories
partOf Nazi Germany
surface form: Greater German Reich

Nazi civil administration in occupied Poland
policy Germanization of Polish population
expulsion of Poles
persecution of Jews
precededBy Free City of Danzig
Pomeranian Voivodeship
surface form: Pomeranian Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)
startTime 1939
subdivisionOf Third Reich
timeZone Central European Time
usedCurrency Reichsmark

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German occupation of Poland administeredBy Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
Wartheland borderedBy Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
Westerplatte Peninsula controlledBy Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
this entity surface form: Free City of Danzig (special status area)
German occupation of Hel Peninsula locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
this entity surface form: Free City of Danzig (annexed areas)
Wartheland (during World War II) borderedBy Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
subject surface form: Wartheland