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After long discussion, Germany decided to re-annex not only all the German lands it was forced to surrender to Poland in 1919–1922, under the Treaty of Versailles (including the " Polish Corridor", West Prussia, the Province of Posen and Upper Silesia), but also other territories. The council of the Free City of Danzig voted "democratically" to become a part of Germany again (though Poles and Jews had no right to vote and all non-Nazi political parties were banned).

Two decrees by Adolf Hitler (Oct. 8 and 12, 1939) provided for the division of the annexed areas of Poland into the following administrative units:

Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen), which included the entire Poznan Voivodship, most of the Lodz Voivodship, five counties of the Pomeranian Voivodship, and one county of the Warszawa Voivodship;
the remaining area of the Pomeranian voivodship, which was incorporated into the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen (initially Reichgau Westpreussen);
Ciechanow District (Regierungsbezirk Zichenau), consisting of the five northern counties of Warszawa Voivodship (Plock, Plonsk, Sterpe, Ciechanow, Mlawa), which became a part of East PrussiaEast Prussia ( German: Ostpreussen Polish: Prusy Wschodnie Russian: Vostochnaya Prussiya was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. The northern part of East Prussia corresponds today to Russia's Kaliningrad O;
Katowice District (Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz), or unofficially Ost-Oberschlesien (East Upper Silesia), which included Sosnowiec, Bedzin, Chryzanow, and Zawiercie counties, and parts of Olkusz and Zywiec counties.

These areas had a surface of 94 000 km² and a population of 10,000,000 people.

After the German attack on the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 in June 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, the district of BialystokBialystok Voivodship ( Polish: wojewodztwo bialostockie) a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975- 1998, superseded by Podlasie Voivodship. Capital city: Bialystok Major cities and towns: (population in 1995): Bialyst, which included the Bialystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Grajewo, Lomza, Sokolka, Volkovysk, and Grodno counties, was "attached to" (not incorporated into) East PrussiaEast Prussia ( German: Ostpreussen Polish: Prusy Wschodnie Russian: Vostochnaya Prussiya was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. The northern part of East Prussia corresponds today to Russia's Kaliningrad O.

For the policies applied on the annexed areas:

World War II atrocities in PolandPolish areas annexed by Nazi Germany The war against Poland was from the start intended as a fulfillment of the plan described by Hitler in his book "Mein Kampf". The main axis of the plan was that all of Eastern Europe should become the source of the pow

About 860,000 Poles were immediately deported from the annexed territories to the German-controlled remnant of Poland ( General Government), while at the same time the Soviet Union began to expel Germans from the Baltic countries. 360,000 Baltic Germans settled down in the re-annexed lands. Poles living on the German re-annexed territories were deprived of their human rights, and faced serious persecutions. By contrast, after World War II Germans living east of the Oder-Neisse Line were transferred to Germany, but those who were former Polish citizens faced trials (see Treatment of alleged Nazi collaborators).

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