Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen
Germany administration unit created in 1939 from Freie Stadt Danzig and Polish Pomerania. The Nazi governor, Albert Forster, was later sentenced to death and executed for crimes against humanity. He operated his own concentration camp in Stutthof. On the area located was famous mass murder site in Piasnica, where some 60,000 local Polish-Kashub intelligentsia was murdered. Polish Catholic Church was severly persecuted and most of catholic priest was deported to concentration camps. However, most of Danziger Jewish minority left the region in 1939, thanks to the fact, that Danzig was not the part of Germany.
In March 1945 the region was captured by Red Army and after few days of looting returned to Polish administration.
Area: 26,057 km2
Population: 2,287,400 (1941)
See also Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, West Prussia, Pomerania.
Referenced By
Administration of Danzig-West Prussia 1939-1945 | Administrations of Danzig before April 1945 | General Government | Government General | Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
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