Gau Upper Silesia information

The Gau Upper Silesia (German: Gau Oberschlesien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945 in the Upper Silesia part of the Prussian...

Silesia. From 1925 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party for this area. The Gau was split into Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia on...

Fritz Bracht (18 January 1899 – 9 May 1945) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Upper Silesia. After training as a gardener, Bracht entered military service in...

Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia in 1941. The majority of the former Gau became...

he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933. An SA-Gruppenführer...

Upper Silesia (Polish: Górny Śląsk ; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; Czech: Horní Slezsko; German: Oberschlesien ; Silesian German: Oberschläsing;...

administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau Silesia, later subdivided into Gau Upper Silesia and Gau Lower Silesia, replaced the Prussian provinces. After...

also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he...

Germany. Czech Silesia with Slezská Ostrava was incorporated into the Sudetenland Gau, while Hultschin was incorporated into Upper Silesia province. With...

The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...

and Silesia (later Upper Silesia), while from others new Reichsgaue Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland were constituted. Wartheland was the only Gau constituted...

Wielkopolska, as well as territories divided after plebiscites such as Upper Silesia, as well as a large area east of these territories, including the city...

Auschwitz was annexed to the German Reich, as part of first Gau Silesia and from 1941 Gau Upper Silesia. The camp at Auschwitz was established in April 1940...

Empire Died 14 August 1941(1941-08-14) (aged 47) Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gau Upper Silesia, Nazi Germany Venerated in Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheran...

known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region...

August 1942. Edith Stein was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), Lower Silesia, into an observant Jewish family. She was the youngest of 11 children and...

for the Weser-Ems Gau throughout this time. On 10 July 1934, Herzog was assigned the leadership of the SA-Gruppe Schlesien (Silesia), headquartered in...

Deputy Gauleiter to Helmuth Brückner in Gau Silesia. In addition, he became the Special Plenipotentiary to Silesia of the SA Supreme Leadership. In April...

tripoint of Upper Lusatia with the historical region of Lower Silesia to the east and Bohemia to the south. All major rivers in the Upper Lusatia flow...

Blachownia was directly annexed into the Third Reich, as part of Gau Upper Silesia (see Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany). The Germans changed its...

of some, like Silesia and Warmia. Among them, only Warmia, Powiśle, southern Masuria, as well as Upper, Cieszyn and Eastern Lower Silesia retained sizeable...

Russian Empire Died November 19, 1942(1942-11-19) (aged 62) Auschwitz, Gau Upper Silesia, Nazi Germany Other names I. Bunakov Occupation(s) writer, political...

County was directly annexed into Nazi Germany, and then made part of Gau Upper Silesia. The Germans operated the E755 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag...