Generalplan Ost
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The Generalplan Ost, abbreviated GPO, was Nazi Germany's plan for the settlement and "Germanization" of captured territory in Eastern Europe, involving the genocide, extermination and large-scale ethn
Prisoners of the Krychów forced labor camp dig irrigation ditches for the new German latifundia of the General Plan East in 1940. Most of them, Polish Jews and some Roma people, were sent to Sobibór extermination camp afterwards.
Hess and Himmler visit a VoMi display of proposed rural German settlements in the East, March 1941.
Nazi propaganda poster from 1939 (dark grey) after the conquest of Poland. It depicts pockets of German colonists resettling into Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany from Soviet-controlled territories during the Heim ins Reich action. The outline of Poland (here superimposed in red) was missing from the original poster.
Massacre of Polish intellectuals during the mass murders in Piaśnica
Following the Invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, nearly a quarter of the entire territory of the Second Polish Republic was annexed by Nazi Germany and placed directly under the Germ
Arthur Greiser in German occupied Poznań, 2 October 1939
Announcement board in Nazi-occupied Łódź declaring its renaming as "Litzmannstadt", 1940
Expulsion of Polish civilians, autumn 1939
Ghettoization of Jews, Litzmannstadt 1941