Poland 1939-40

  • Einsatzgruppen (Aug 1939)

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact - Poland Defeat

  • Hitler had freed the armu from virtually any role in the administration of Poland.

  • Himmler appointed Teich Commissar for he consolidation of German Nationhood (RFKD)

    Responsible for settling Germans in the conquered territories and also for 'exluding the damaging influence of those foreign sections of the population which pose a danger to the Reich and the German national community'
  • Official mass Jewish deportations from incorporated territories

  • Germany was desperately short of workers

  • German authorities began a new pacification policy to wipe out potential rebellious elements