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The Zamojskie Museum

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The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
The Zamojskie Museum
Phone:
+48 84 638 64 94

Hours:
Sunday9am - 4pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am - 4pm
Wednesday9am - 4pm
Thursday9am - 4pm
Friday9am - 4pm
Saturday9am - 4pm


The General Government , also referred to as the General Governorate, was a German zone of occupation established after the joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II. The newly occupied Second Polish Republic was split into three zones: the General Government in its centre, Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany in the west, and Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union in the east. The territory was expanded substantially in 1941 to include the new District of Galicia.The basis for the formation of General Government was a German-Soviet claim of the total collapse of the Polish state, announced by Adolf Hitler on October 8, 1939 through the so-called Annexation Decree on the Administration of the Occupied Polish Territories. This rationale was utilized by the German Supreme Court to reassign the identity of all Polish nationals as stateless subjects, with exception of the ethnic Germans of interwar Poland, named the only rightful citizens of the Third Reich in disregard of international law.The General Government was run by Nazi Germany as a separate administrative unit for logistical purposes. When the Wehrmacht forces attacked the Soviet positions in Kresy in June 1941 during its initially successful Operation Barbarossa, the area of the General Government was enlarged by the inclusion of the regions of Poland occupied by the Red Army since 1939. Within days, East Galicia was overrun and renamed Distrikt Galizien. Until 1945 the General Government comprised much of central, southern, and southeastern Poland within its prewar borders , including the major Polish cities of Warsaw, Kraków, Lwów , Lublin , Tarnopol , Stanisławów , Drohobycz, and Sambor and others. Geographical locations were renamed in German.The administration of the General Government was composed entirely of the German officials with the intent that the area was to be colonized by Germanic settlers who would reduce the local Polish population to the level of serfs before their eventual biological extermination. The Nazi German rulers of the Generalgouvernement had no intention of sharing power with the locals throughout the war, regardless of their ethnicity and political orientation. The authorities rarely mentioned the name Poland in legal correspondence. The only exception to this was the General Government's Bank of Issue in Poland .
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