Reichsgau Upper Silesia

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Reichsgau_Upper_Silesia
GPTKB entity
Statements (24)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Nazi government agency
gptkbp:area 14,000 km²
gptkbp:borderedBy gptkb:Reichsgau_Wartheland
gptkb:Slovakia
gptkb:General_Government
gptkb:Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Kattowitz
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:dissolved January 1945
gptkbp:established 8 October 1939
gptkbp:governor gptkb:Fritz_Bracht
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Reichsgau Upper Silesia
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
Polish
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Silesia
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Holocaust
gptkbp:notableSite gptkb:Auschwitz_concentration_camp
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Reichsgau_Oberschlesien
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:General_Government_(Nazi_Germany)
gptkbp:population 2,300,000 (1941)
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Second_Polish_Republic
gptkbp:successor gptkb:People's_Republic_of_Poland
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Nazi-occupied_Poland
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6