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LAWYER HANS FRANK TO HEAD OCCUPIED POLAND
ByNorm Haskett October 26, 2014 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Berlin, Germany · October 26, 1939 On this date in 1939 in Poland, 56 days after Germany invaded that country, Dr. Hans Frank, Germany’s chief jurist and one of the most vicious products of Nazism, was appointed Governor-General of the General Government—that half of Nazi-occupied Poland not directly incorporated into the Reich. It included much…

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DUTCH PAY PRICE, BECOME NAZI VASSALS
ByNorm Haskett May 15, 2014 Reading Time: 4 minutes

The Hague, Netherlands · May 15, 1940 Following the Dutch surrender on this date in 1940, Adolf Hitler appointed fellow Austrian Arthur Seyss-Inquart to be Reichskommissar for the Occupied Netherlands. Previously, long-time Nazi Party member Seyss-Inquart had served as Reichsstatthalter (governor) of the new German province of Ostmark, which had once been the independent country of…

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