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  2. Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions - Wikipedia

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    At the same time the Prussian government and Prussian King pursued Germanisation of administration and judicial system, while local officials enforced Germanisation of educational system and tried to eradicate the economic position of Polish nobility. [4] In Bromberg the mayors were all Germans. In Posen, out of 700 officials, only 30 were Poles.

  3. Germanisation in Poland (1939–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The implementation of Germanisation requires a change of character of the occupied nation via partial expulsion of the Polish populous and the assimilation of the rest, deemed upon their "racially worthy" elements." [1] The greatest fervour of Germanisation was implemented in those regions seized by the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

  4. Germanisation of the Province of Posen - Wikipedia

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    The Germanisation of the Province of Posen was a policy of the Kulturkampf measures enacted by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whose goal was to Germanize Polish-speaking areas in the Prussian Province of Posen by eradicating and discrimination of Polish language and culture, as well as to reduce the influence of the "ultramontanist" Roman ...

  5. Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The government in exile was represented in the occupied Poland by the Government Delegation for Poland, headed by the Government Delegate for Poland. [103] The main role of the civilian branch of the Underground State was to preserve the continuity of the Polish state as a whole, including its institutions.

  6. Second Polish Republic - Wikipedia

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    The official name of the state was the Republic of Poland.In the Polish language, it was referred to as Rzeczpospolita Polska (abbr. RP), with the term Rzeczpospolita being a traditional name for the republic when referring to various Polish states, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (considered to be the First Polish Republic, Pierwsza Rzeczpospolita), and later, the current Third ...

  7. Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Polish Matczak family among Poles expelled in 1939 from Sieradz in central Poland. The Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany during World War II was a massive operation consisting of the forced resettlement of over 1.7 million Poles from the territories of German-occupied Poland, with the aim of their Germanization (see Lebensraum) between 1939 and 1944.

  8. General Government administration - Wikipedia

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    Leaders of the General Government during an inspection of the Sonderdienst: from right, marching, Generalgouverneur Hans Frank, Chief of the Police GG Herbert Becker and secretary of state Ernst Boepple Official proclamation of the General-Government in Poland by Germany, October 1939 Members of General Gouvernment administration: in center ...

  9. General Government - Wikipedia

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    The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement, IPA: [ɡenəˈʁaːlɡuvɛʁnəˌmã] ⓘ; Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (German: Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi ...