Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The General Government, also sometimes General Governorate (German: Generalgouvernement, Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo, Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія) was an occupied area of the Second Republic of Poland that was under colonial administration of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to early 1945. The Nazi government designated the territory as a separate administrative region of the Third Reich. It included much of central and southern Poland, western Ukraine, and included the major cities of Warsaw, Kraków, and Lviv.Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the region of Eastern Galicia, formerly Polish territory which was invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union subsequent to the Nazi–Soviet pact, was incorporated into the General Government.The area was a colony rather than a puppet state; its rulers had no goal of cooperating with Poles or Ukrainians throughout the war, regardless of their political orientation. The authorities rarely even mentioned the name "Poland" in government correspondence. The only exception to this were the General Government's banknotes and coins (called zloty and grosz) minted in 1940. The government and administration of the General Government was composed entirely of Germans, with the intent that the area was to be colonised by German settlers who would reduce the Poles to the level of serfs.. }
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- General_Government abstract "The General Government, also sometimes General Governorate (German: Generalgouvernement, Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo, Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія) was an occupied area of the Second Republic of Poland that was under colonial administration of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to early 1945. The Nazi government designated the territory as a separate administrative region of the Third Reich. It included much of central and southern Poland, western Ukraine, and included the major cities of Warsaw, Kraków, and Lviv.Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the region of Eastern Galicia, formerly Polish territory which was invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union subsequent to the Nazi–Soviet pact, was incorporated into the General Government.The area was a colony rather than a puppet state; its rulers had no goal of cooperating with Poles or Ukrainians throughout the war, regardless of their political orientation. The authorities rarely even mentioned the name "Poland" in government correspondence. The only exception to this were the General Government's banknotes and coins (called zloty and grosz) minted in 1940. The government and administration of the General Government was composed entirely of Germans, with the intent that the area was to be colonised by German settlers who would reduce the Poles to the level of serfs.".