Massacres in the General Government. After the Wehrmacht invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, the country was divided into various occupied territories. With the invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, this also extended to the formerly Soviet-occupied parts of Poland. Some areas were annexed to the German Reich, while the remaining parts of the country were under German occupation as the General Government.
At least 4,200 Polish Roma were victims of executions in their homes or in places where they were captured. The map shows 167 sites of such massacres. How the map was created is explained in the lemma ‘Massacres in the General Government’.
