Środa Wielkopolska
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Środa Wielkopolska is a town in western-central Poland, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of Poznań, with 22,001 inhabitants (2009). It is the seat of Środa Wielkopolska County, and of Gmina Środa Wielkopolska.
Collegiate church and marketplace
Resolution of the sejmik of Poznań and Kalisz voivodeships in Środa approving the election of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Poland in 1587
Jan Henryk Dąbrowski monument with a historic water tower in the background
Arthur Greiser
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Arthur Karl Greiser was a Nazi German politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of the German-occupied territory of Wartheland. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in occupied Poland and numerous other crimes against humanity. He was arrested by the Americans in 1945, and was tried, convicted and executed by hanging in Poland in 1946 for his crimes, most notably genocide.
Greiser as Senate President in 1936 with his wife
In occupied Poznań, 1939
Reviewing the troops in Poznań, November 1939. Greiser is on the right with Wilhelm Frick (center) and Generalmajor Walter Petzel (left).