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[[Hans Frank]] was an avid chess player, so he organized [[General Government chess tournament]]s. Only Germans were allowed to perform in sporting events. About 80 football clubs played in [[Gauliga Generalgouvernement|four district divisions]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rfbl.pl/polsko-niemiecka-historia-pilki-czyli-powrot-do-przeszlosci/ |title=Polsko-niemiecka historia piłki, czyli powrót do przeszłości |date=2015-12-27 |access-date=2018-05-25 |archive-date=2018-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525204719/http://rfbl.pl/polsko-niemiecka-historia-pilki-czyli-powrot-do-przeszlosci/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

 

{{main|The Holocaust in Poland}}

[[File:WW2-Holocaust-Poland.PNG|thumb|260px|Nazi extermination camps in [[occupied Poland]], marked with black and white skulls. General Government in beige. Death camp at [[Auschwitz]] (lower left) in the neighbouring new German ''Provinz Oberschlesien'']]During the [[Wannsee conference]] on January 20, 1942, the State Secretary of the General Government, ''[[SS-Brigadeführer]]'' [[Josef Bühler]] encouraged [[Reinhard Heydrich|Heydrich]] to implement the "[[Final Solution]]". From his own point of view, as an administrative official, the problems in his district included an overdeveloped black market. He endorsed a remedy in solving the "Jewish question" as fast as possible. An additional point in favor of setting up the extermination facilities in his governorate was that there were no transportation problems there,<ref name="upenn-eichmann">{{Cite web |url=http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/wansee-transcript.html |access-date=2009-01-05 |title=The Wannsee Conference Protocol |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |author=[[Adolf Eichmann]] |others=Dan Rogers (translator) |archive-date=2019-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515091325/http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/wansee-transcript.html |url-status=live }}</ref> since all assets of the disbanded [[Polish State Railways#History|Polish State Railways]] (PKP) were being managed by ''[[Ostbahn (General Government)|Ostbahn]]'', the Kraków-based ''[[Deutsche Reichsbahn]]'' branch of the ''Generaldirektion der Ostbahn'' ("General Directorate of Eastern Railways", '''Gedob'''). This made a [[Holocaust trains|network of death trains]] readily available to the ''[[SS-Totenkopfverbände]]''.<ref name="Wasilewski">{{cite web |url=http://old.pkp.pl/node/178 |title=25 września. Wcielenie kolei polskich na Śląsku, w Wielkopolsce i na Pomorzu do niemieckich kolei państwowych Deutsche Reichsbahn. |publisher=[[Polskie Koleje Państwowe]] PKP |year=2014 |access-date=8 February 2014 |author=Jerzy Wasilewski |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/2014.02.08-175309/http://old.pkp.pl/node/178 |archive-date=8 February 2014}}</ref>