Tarnopol in the war

In the autumn of 1939 the Soviet Union incorporated the Tarnopol lands into the Ukrainian SSR, and in the summer of 1941 the Wehrmacht occupied them. On 1 August 1941 the Germans attached Tarnopol, with the rest of Eastern Galicia, to the General Government as part of the District of Galicia. In the spring of 1944 they declared the city a fortress; encircled, Tarnopol fell on 15 April, and after the war it remained in the Ukrainian SSR. General Franciszek Kleeberg was born here.