ABSTRACT
General Government of Poland Following the invasion and partition of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939, Adolf Hitler incorporated the western and northern regions of the conquered country into the Reich and transformed the remainder, about 95,000 square kilometers with a population of approximately 10.5 million, into the so-called General Government of Poland. Headed by a vet eran Nazi, Dr. Hans Frank (q.v.), the General Government was administratively divided into four major districts (Krakow, Lublin, Radom, and Warsaw), each headed by a German district chief, later called governor. In August 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, a fifth district, Galicia, was added to the General Government.
