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The '''General Government''' ({{lang-de|Generalgouvernement}},; {{lang-pl|Generalne Gubernatorstwo}},; {{lang-uk|Генеральна губернія}}), also referred to as the '''General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region''' ({{lang-de|Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete}}), was a German zone of occupation established after the [[invasion of Poland]] by [[Nazi Germany]], [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|Slovakia]] and the [[Soviet Union]] in 1939 at the onset of [[World War&nbsp;II]]. The newly occupied [[Second Polish Republic]] was split into three zones: the General Government in its centre, [[Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany]] in the west, and [[territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union|Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union]] in the east. The territory was expanded substantially in 1941, after the German [[Operation Barbarossa|Invasion of the Soviet Union]], to include the new [[District of Galicia]].<ref name="Diemut2003"/> The area of the ''Generalgouvernement'' roughly corresponded with the Austrian part of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] after the [[Third Partition of Poland]] in 1795.
 
The basis for the formation of the General Government was the "Annexation Decree on the Administration of the Occupied Polish Territories". Announced by Hitler on October 8, 1939, it claimed that the Polish government had totally collapsed. This rationale was utilized by the [[German Supreme Court]] to reassign the identity of all Polish nationals as [[statelessness|stateless subjects]], with the exception of the [[German diaspora|ethnic Germans]] of interwar Poland—who, disregarding international law, were named the only rightful citizens of [[Nazi Germany]].<ref name="Diemut2003">{{cite book |title="Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany and Occupied Eastern Europe with Special Regard to Occupied Poland, 1939–1945 |publisher=JHU Press |work=With contribution from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |year=2003 |author=Diemut Majer |pages=236–246 |isbn=0801864933 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BCNrHG9K8C&q=%22Point+of+Departure%3A+Statelessness%22 |access-date=2020-10-31 |archive-date=2023-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317071103/https://books.google.com/books?id=J_BCNrHG9K8C&q=%22Point+of+Departure%3A+Statelessness%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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