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Hans Frank
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1939
October
26
Key event
The annexation of Polish lands and the General Government
On 26 October 1939 Hitler’s decrees took effect. Western Poland was annexed to the Reich and central Poland became Hans Frank’s General Government.
November
06
Sonderaktion Krakau
On 6 November 1939 the Germans lured Kraków professors to a bogus lecture in the Collegium Novum, arrested 183 people and deported them to Sachsenhausen.
23
Star of David armbands
On 23 November 1939 Hans Frank ordered Jews in the General Government aged 10 and over to wear a white armband with a blue Star of David from 1 December.
1940
June
20
Executions at Palmiry
On 20 and 21 June 1940 the Germans shot 358 Pawiak prisoners at Palmiry, among them Maciej Rataj, Mieczysław Niedziałkowski and Janusz Kusociński.
October
02
Key event
The creation of the Warsaw Ghetto
On 2 October 1940 Governor Ludwig Fischer ordered a “Jewish district” to be set up in Warsaw. By mid-November some 250,000 people had been forced to move.
1941
August
01
The District of Galicia
On 1 August 1941 the Germans added Eastern Galicia, with Lwów, Stanisławów and Tarnopol, to the General Government as its fifth district.
December
24
The fur collection drive
On Christmas Eve 1941 the Germans ordered Jews in the General Government to hand over all furs for troops on the Eastern Front. Hiding a fur meant death.