Reichskommissariat Ukraine

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The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU; lit. 'Reich Commissariat of Ukraine') was an administrative entity of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. It served as the German civilian occupation regime in the Ukrainian SSR and parts of the Byelorussian SSR, Russian SFSR, and Eastern Poland during the Eastern Front of World War II. Reichskommissariat Ukraine was established after early territory gains in Operation Barbarossa under the military administration of Army Group South Rear Area. The German civil administration was based in Rovno (Rivne). Erich Koch served as the only Reichskommissar during the administrative entity's existence. Reichskommissariat Ukraine was part of the Generalplan Ost which included the forced displacement, enslavement, and genocide of the native Ukrainian population, the genocide of the land’s Jewish population, the settlement of Germanic peoples, and the Germanization of the rest. These goals were pursued by SS...

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