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Hitler in 1932 and published his autobiography after the war in which he was critical of
Hitlers leadership style. Kaufmann, Hamburg's longest-serving Gauleiter, spent time in prison after the war but was released because of an injury. He cultivated a myth of the "good Gauleiter", claiming to have saved Hamburg from further destruction by surrendering it to the Allies in the final days of war but this was disproven. He also attempted to portray Hamburg as a liberal city in the Nazi era, contrary to the fact that he was the first Gauleiter to request and receive permission for the deportation of the Jewish population after Allied air raids on the city in September 1941. He died in Hamburg in 1969.
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and the oppression of the local population were its necessary corollaries. He was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1948 but released in 1951, an extradition request by the Soviet Union having been refused, and died in 1964. Krebs, Gauleiter from 1926 to 1928, was expelled from the Nazi Party by
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337:, 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
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took over and held it from 1929 to 1945. Klant, Hamburg's original
Gauleiter, held the post for only a short time, resigned and died in 1927. Lohse, who was Gauleiter of
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Eichholtz, Dietrich. ""Generalplan Ost" zur
Versklavung osteuropäischer Völker" ["Generalplan Ost" to enslave Eastern European people].
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conference on 22 May 1926, in order to improve administration of the party structure. From 1933 onwards, after the
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was located in the Gau
Hamburg. Of the 106,000 prisoners that were sent to the camp 55,000 perished.
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480:"Ăśbersicht der NSDAP-Gaue, der Gauleiter und der Stellvertretenden Gauleiter zwischen 1933 und 1945"
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482:[Overview of Nazi Gaue, the Gauleiter and assistant Gauleiter from 1933 to 1945].
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In the early years from 1925 to 1929 the position of
Gauleiter in Hamburg was held by
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908:
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increasingly replaced the German states as administrative subdivisions in
Germany.
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The Nazi Gau (plural Gaue) system was originally established in a
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from 1926 to 1945, was also, from 1941 onward, in charge of the
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Germanization policies built on the foundations of the
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1977:
446:"The Organization of the Nazi Party & State"
611:[The legend of the "good Gauleiter"].
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973:
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1986:States and territories established in 1925
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695:
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761:
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409:
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609:"Die Legende vom "guten Gauleiter""
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2006:1945 disestablishments in Germany
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329:At the head of each Gau stood a
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233:
57:
45:
1612:Norway (Administrative Council)
2001:1925 establishments in Germany
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1637:Serbia (Council of Ministers)
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394:Neuengamme concentration camp
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1792:Belgium and Northern France
1415:Belgium and Northern France
10:
2027:
1294:Civil Administration Areas
899:Southern Hanover–Brunswick
488:Zukunft braucht Erinnerung
366:Reichskommissariat Ostland
309:
1943:
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1860:
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1771:
1751:
1665:
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1502:
1474:
1400:
1380:
1355:
1292:
1281:
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1063:
1011:
972:
942:
739:
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419:[The Nazi Gaue].
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581:[Nazi history].
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126:• 1926–1928
116:• 1925–1926
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721:and German occupations
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954:Reichsfestung Belgrad
320:Nazi seizure of power
1956:Strength Through Joy
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864:Munich–Upper Bavaria
849:March of Brandenburg
1775:Reichskommissariats
1607:Norway (Quisling I)
1537:Chechnya-Ingushetia
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1182:Partial annexations
993:Danzig–West Prussia
1207:General Government
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