Reichskommissariat

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Reichskommissariat (English: Realm Commissariat) is a German word for a type of administrative entity headed by a civil government official known as a Reichskommissar (English: Realm Commissioner). Although many offices existed, primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing), it is most commonly used to refer to the civil administrative territories established by Nazi Germany in some of the occupied countries during World War II. In the legal sense these were territories not under direct German military administration nor annexed and integrated into the Altreich, which was the fate of other occupied countries and territories. The Reichskommissariats were directly controlled by their supreme civil authorities led by a "governor" or Reichskommissar, who reported to Adolf Hitler. The introduction of these territorial administrations served a number of purposes. Those established...

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