Gau March of Brandenburg

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Gau March of Brandenburg
Gau of Nazi Germany
1933–1945
Flag of Gau Mark Brandenburg
Flag
Coat of arms of Gau Mark Brandenburg
Coat of arms
Frankfurt an der Oder
Berlin
Government
Gauleiter 
• 1933–1936
Wilhelm Kube
• 1936–1945
Emil Sturtz
History 
• 
Disestablishment
8 May 1945
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Free State of Prussia (1933-1935)
Brandenburg (1945–1952)
Polish People's Republic
Today part ofGermany
Poland

The Gau March of Brandenburg (German: Mark Brandenburg) was formed in March 1933 initially under the name Gau Electoral March (German: Kurmark) in

Oder-Neisse line, which were given to the Polish People's Republic. Most of its territory is now divided between Germany's State of Brandenburg and Poland's Lubusz Voivodeship
.

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 March of Brandenburg was originally held by

Emil Sturtz (1936–45).[3][4]

The Ravensbrück concentration camp and Sachsenhausen concentration camp were located in Gau March of Brandenburg. Ravensbrück was a women's camp. Of the 132,000 prisoners that were sent to the camp 92,000 perished.[5] Of the estimated 200,000 prisoners at Sachsenhausen 30,000 perished. However this figure does not include prisoners that died on the way to the camp or were never registered and killed on arrival, the latter mostly Soviet prisoners of war.[6]

References

  1. ^
    Deutsches Historisches Museum
    . Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. The Nizkor Project
    . Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Gau Kurmark". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Ravensbrueck" (PDF). yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Sachsenhausen" (PDF). yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

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