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Generalgouvernement
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German term for the area of poland which, following the partitioning secretly agreed by the 1939 nazi-soviet pact , lay between the western regions (especially the Wartheland) directly incorporated into Germany and the eastern ones annexed by the Soviet Union. Labeled as a “protectorate,” this territory was administered from Kraków with particular brutality by Hans Frank. It provided the location for the Third Reich's principal extermination centers (see concentration camps ; final solution ). ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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