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German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
Following the German invasion and conquest of Poland, Hitler signed a decree on 12 October 1939, declaring that the Polish territories occupied by the Germans would be placed under the administration of a Governor-General and would be known as the General Government of the Occupied Polish Territories. This came into effect on 26 October.
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942 Gaue, Reichsgaue and other administrative divisions of Germany proper in January 1944. According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin was split from Germany for at least 15 years. In 1935, the Saarland rejoined Germany in a lawful way after a plebiscite.
This article lists the administrators of Allied-occupied Germany, which represented the Allies of World War II in Allied-occupied Germany (German: Alliierten-besetztes Deutschland) from the end of World War II in Europe in 1945 [1] [2] [3] until the establishment of West Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; German ...
Map of German Colonies in the Pacific, 1914. Brown, German New Guinea; Orange, North Solomons; Red, German Samoa; Yellow, Other Pacific Territories. These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919 Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914; Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914; German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885 ...
In 1946, in the name of the Dutch government, he officially claimed 4,980 km 2 (1,920 sq mi) of German territory, which was not even half of the area envisioned by Van Kleffens. The Dutch-German border would be drawn from Vaals via Winterswijk to the Ems River, so that 550,000 Germans would live inside the Dutch national borders.
Germany went from a territory of 468,787 km 2 [4] before the 1938 annexation of Austria to 357,022 km 2 [5] after the 1990 reunification of Germany, a loss of 24%. [6] Despite its acquisition of the formerly German territory, the war also saw Poland's territory reduced by about 20% overall because of its losses in the east to the Soviets.
Allied-occupied Germany (from 5 June 1945 to 7 October 1949) was divided into four zones of occupation by France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Estonia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, but the legality of the annexation was not widely recognized.