Gau Eastern Hanover
| Gau Eastern Hanover | |||||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
| 1928–1945 | |||||||||||
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Gaue and Reichsgaue). | |||||||||||
| Capital | Lüneburg | ||||||||||
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| Gauleiter | |||||||||||
• 1928–1945 | Otto Telschow | ||||||||||
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• Disestablishment | 8 May 1945 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
Gau Eastern Hanover (German: Ost-Hannover) was a regional district of the
British Zone of Occupation. The municipality of Amt Neuhaus was allocated to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
.
History
The Nazi Gau (plural Gaue) system was originally established in a
Nazi seizure of power, the Gaue increasingly replaced the German states as administrative subdivisions in Germany.[1]
At the head of each Gau stood a
Second World War, with little interference from above. Local Gauleiters often held government positions as well as party ones and were in charge of, among other things, propaganda and surveillance and, from September 1944 onward, the Volkssturm and the defense of the Gau.[1][2]
The position of Gauleiter in East Hanover was held by Otto Telschow for the duration of the existence of the Gau.[3][4]
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was located in the Gau Eastern Hanover. The camp was liberated by the British Army in April 1945 who found the remaining 60,000 inmates in a state of starvation and near-death while the camp was littered with unburied bodies of dead inmates.[5]
References
- ^ Deutsches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- The Nizkor Project. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Übersicht der NSDAP-Gaue, der Gauleiter und der Stellvertretenden Gauleiter zwischen 1933 und 1945" [Overview of Nazi Gaue, the Gauleiter and assistant Gauleiter from 1933 to 1945]. zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de (in German). Zukunft braucht Erinnerung. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Gau Ost-Hannover". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Bergen-Belsen" (PDF). yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
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