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
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In Nazi German terminology, Volksdeutsche were "people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship." The term is the nominalised plural of volksdeutsch, with
Volksdeutsche of Sudetendeutsches Freikorps in Czechoslovakia, 1938
Volksdeutsche of Łódź greeting German cavalry in 1939
Volksdeutsche meeting in occupied Warsaw, 1940
Entry to Volksdeutsche office in Kraków, 1940