Radom District Explained

Radom District was one of the first four Nazi districts of the General Governorate region of German-occupied Poland during World War II, along with Warsaw District, Lublin District, and Kraków District. To the west it bordered Reichsgau Wartheland and East Upper Silesia.^{[1] [2]}

The district's governors were Karl Lasch from 1939 to 1941, followed by Ernst Kundt until 1945. It is estimated that the district's population in 1940 was approximately 3 million people,^[3] including over 300,000 Jews.

Notes and References

1. Book: Scherner . Jonas . White . Eugene N. . Paying for Hitler's War: The Consequences of Nazi Economic Hegemony for Europe . 2016 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-04970-3 . 434 . en.
2. Book: Seidel . Robert . Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Polen: Der Distrikt Radom 1939-1945 . 2006 . Ferdinand Schöningh . 978-3-506-75628-2 . de.
3. Book: Megargee . Geoffrey P. . The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 –1945: Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe . Dean . Martin . 2012-05-04 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-00202-0 . 188 . en.