Axis Occupation

War Ensign 1939-45 Governors Flag 1940-45

Belgium

10 May 1940 - 03 Sep 1944 German occupation, administerd with

                           North and Pas de Calais departments of France

   Jul 1944               Divided into three parts (Reichsgauen) for intergration

                           with German Reich

   Jan 1945               Fully Liberated by allied forces

German Military Governors

10 May      - 20 May 1940 Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt

                          + Feodor von Bock

20 May 1940 - 18 Jul 1944 Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen

01 Jun 1940 -    Jun 1944 Eggert Reeder

Reichskommissar Belgien-Nordfrankreich

18 Jun 1944 -    Jan 1945 Joseph Grohé .................................. 1902-1988

Bohemia-Moravia

16 Mar 1939 - 08 May 1945 Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia under German occupation

08 May 1945               Liberated by (Allied) Soviet forces

Reichs Protectors

15 Mar      - 05 Apr 1939 Johannes Blaskowitz ........................... 1884-1948

                          (Military governor, in Prague, Bohemia)

                           + Wilhelm Sigmund List ....................... 1880-1971

                          (Military governor, in Brno, Moravia)

05 Apr 1939 - 20 Aug 1943 Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath ............... 1873-1956

27 Sep 1941 - 04 Jun 1942 Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich ............... 1904-1942

27 Mar      - 28 May 1942 Karl Hermann Frank ............................ 1898-1946

28 May 1942 - 14 Oct 1943 Kurt Dalüge ................................... 1897-1946

14 Oct 1943 - 04 May 1945 Wilhelm Frick ................................. 1877-1946

26 Apr     - 08 May 1945 Ferdinand Schörner ............................ 1892-1973

Secretary of State

15 Mar 1939 - 08 May 1945 Karl Hermann Frank

Chief of Civil Adminisration in Bohemia

15 Mar - 15 Apr 1939 Konrad Henlein ..................................... 1898-1945

Chief of Civil Adminisration in Moravia

15 Mar - 15 Apr 1939 Josef Bruckel ...................................... 1895-1944

Croatia

06 Apr 1941               Axis invasion of Yugoslavia

06 Apr 1941 - 08 May 1945 Under Axis occupation, divided into Italian Western

                           and German Eastern zones

10 Apr 1941               Axis allied Independent State of Croatia proclaimed

10 Sep 1943               Germany takes over Italian Zone

Italian Military Commanders of the Western Zone

06 Apr 1941 - 1942        Vittorio Ambrosio ............................. 1879-1958

   Feb 1942 - 1943        Mario Roatta .................................. 1886-1968

   Feb      - 10 Sep 1943 Mario Robotti ................................. 1882-1955

German Military Commanders of the Eastern Zone

06 Apr      - 01 May 1941 Maximilian Maria Joseph,

                           Freiherr von und zu Weichs (1st Time) ........ 1881-1954

01 Mat 1941 - 25 Sep 1944 Edmund Glaise von Horstenau ................... 1882-1946

25 Sep 1944 -    Mar 1945 Maximilian Maria Joseph,
                           Freiherr von und zu Weichs (2nd Time)

   Mar      - 08 May 1945 Alexander Löhr ................................ 1885-1971

German Civil official in Croatia

20 Apr 1941 - 08 May 1945 Siegfried Kasche .............................. 1903-1947

France

10 Jun 1940 - 03 Sep 1944 German occupation

10 Jun 1940 - 08 Sep 1943 Italian Zone of occupation in Southern France

12 Sep 1942 - 31 Jul 1943 Italian zone (Nice, Savoy and Corsica) annexed by Italy

11 Nov 1942               German occupation of Vichy France

08 Sep 1943               German occupation of Italian Zone

German Military Governors for France

10 May      - 25 Oct 1940 Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walter von Brauchitsch

09 Jun      - 30 Jun 1940 Johannes Blaskowitz

                          (Northern France)

30 Jun      - 25 Oct 1940 Alfred Streccius

                          (chief of the military administration)

25 Oct 1940 - 20 Feb 1942 Otto von Stülpnagel

20 Feb 1942 - 20 Jul 1944 Karl Heinrich von Stülpnagel .................. 1886-1944

21 Jul      - 26 Aug 1944 Karl Kitzinger ................................ 1886-1962

26 Aug     - 04 Sep 1944 Otto Moritz Walter Model ...................... 1891-1945

05 Sep 1944 - 09 Mar 1945 Karl Rudolf Gerd von Runstedt ................. 1875-1963

German Commanders for Vichy France

11 Nov      - 15 Dec 1942 Alexander Freiherr von Neubronn von Eisenburg . 1877-1949

15 Dec 1942 - 10 Jun 1944 Heinrich Niehoff .............................. 1882-1946

10 Jun      - 31 Jul 1944 Theodor Geib .................................. 1885-1944

01 Aug      - 05 Aug 1944 Edgar Theissen ................................ 1894-1952

Commanders of the Italian zone of occupation

10 Jun      -    Nov 1940 Alfredo Guzzoni ............................... 1879-1961

   Nov 1940 -    May 1941 Mario Caracciolo di Feroleto .................. 1880-1954

   May 1941 - 08 Sep 1943 Mario Vercellino .............................. 1877-1965

Greece

1940      Failed Italian invasion though Albania

06 Apr 1941 - 08 Sep 1943 Italian occupation in Epirus, Thessaly, Peloponnese, Athens,

                           Attica & Ionian Islands

06 Apr 1941 - 03 Nov 1944 German occupation

19 Apr 1941 - 09 Sep 1944 Bulgarian occupation in Eastern Macedonia & Western Thrace

08 Sep 1943               German occupation of Italin Zone

Bulgarian Military Commanders

20 Apr 1941 - 22 Nov 1943 .....

22 Nov 1943 -    May 1944 Trifon Jordanov Trifonov ...................... 1895-1945

   May      -    Aug 1944 Kiril Stanchev

   Aug      -    Sep 1944 Asen Sirakov

German Military Commanders for Greece

06 Apr      - 05 Jul 1941 Wilhelm Sigmund List

01 May 1941 - 03 Nov 1943 Guenther Altenburg ............................ 1894-1984

                          (Military Plenipotentiary)

08 Sep 1943 - 26 Aug 1944

26 Aug      - 18 Oct 1944 Maximilian Maria Josef, Freiherr von Weichs

Italian Military Commanders

   Apr 1941 -    Sep 1943 Pellegrino Ghigi .............................. 1889-1960

                          (Plenipotentiary)

25 Jun 1941 -    May 1943 Carlo Geloso .................................. 1879-1957

   May      - 09 Sep 1943 Carlo Vecchiarelli ............................ 1884-1948

Luxembourg

14 Aug 1940 - 28 Jan 1945 German occupation

30 Aug 1942 Annexed by Germany, population granted German citizenship

11 Sep 1944 Liberated by allied forces

Chief of the civil administration

07 Aug 1940 - 18 Sep 1944 Gustav Simon .................................. 1900-1945

Netherlands

10 May 1940 - 05 May 1945 German occupation

German Military Governors

10 May      - 20 May 1940 Fedor von Bock ................................ 1880-1945

20 May      - 29 May 1940 Alexander von Falkenhausen .................... 1878-1966

Reichskommissar

29 May 1940 - 05 May 1945 Artur von Seyss-Inquart

Norway

09 Apr 1940 - 08 May 1945 German occupation

German Military Governors

09 Apr 1940 - 17 Dec 1944 Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ...................... 1885-1968

17 Dec 1944 - 17 Jan 1945 Lothar Rendulic ............................... 1887-1971

17 Jan - 08 May 1945 Franz Friedrich Böhme ......................... 1894-1947

Reichskommissar

25 Apr 1940 - 07 May 1945 Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven .............. 1898-1945

Ostland

17 Jul 1941 - 02 Feb 1945 Occupied Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Belarussian SSR organised as Ostland

13 Oct 1944              Riga liberated by Soviet forces

02 Feb 1945               Ostland dissolved

Reichskommissare

17 Jul 1941 - 26 Sep 1944 Heinrich Lohse

26 Sep     - 13 Oct 1944 Erich Koch

Head Chief of Division I Central Office

01 Sep 1942 - 13 Oct 1944 Wilhelm Burmeister

Poland

01 Sep 1939 - 17 Jan 1945 German occupation

21 Jun 1941               Germany occupies the Soviet zone (annexed on 28 Sep 1939)

   Jul 1944               Start of Soviet invasion and German retreat

17 Jan 1945               Warsaw liberated by Soviet forces

22 Jan 1945               Last German troops surender

Military Governors

01 Sep      - 03 Oct 1939 Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walter von Brauchitsch . 1881-1948

03 Oct      - 19 Oct 1939 Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt ................. 1875-1953

20 Oct 1939 - 30 Apr 1940 Johannes Blaskowitz

01 May      - 20 Jul 1940 Curt Ludwig Freiherr von Gienanth

Governor-general

25 Oct 1939 - 17 Jan 1945 Hans Michael Frank ............................. 1901-1946

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Bialystok

Governors

15 Aug 1941 - 27 Jul 1944 Erich Koch ..................................... 1906-1986

15 Aug 1951 - 31 Jan 1942 Waldemar Magunia ............................... 1902-1945

                          (acting)

01 Feb 1942 - 27 Jul 1944 Friedrich de Brix (acting)

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Galizien

Governors

01 Aug 1941 - 22 Jan 1943 Karl Lasch ..................................... 1904-1942

   Feb 1942 - 27 Jul 1944 Otto Gustav Freiherr von Wachter ............... 1901-1949

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Krakau

Governors

06 Sep      - 14 Oct 1939 Wilhelm Sigmund List ........................... 1880-1971

14 Oct      - 25 Oct 1939 Wilhelm Ulex ................................... 1880-1959

25 Oct      - 07 Nov 1939 Arthur Seyss-Inquart ........................... 1892-1946

                          (acting)

07 Nov 1939 - 23 Jan 1942 Otto Gustav Freiherr von Wachter

23 Jan      - 31 Jan 1942 Ferdinand Wolsegger ............................ 1889-1945

                          (acting)

01 Feb 1942 - 26 May 1943 Richard Wendler ................................ 1898-1972

26 May      - 27 Sep 1943 Ludwig Losacker ................................ 1906-1994

27 Sep      - 18 Nov 1943 Ernst Kundt .................................... 1897-1947

                          (acting)

19 Nov 1943 - 22 Jan 1945 Curt Ludwig Erich von Burgsdorff ............... 1886-1962

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Lublin

Governors

   Sep      - 13 Oct 1939 Johannes Blaskowitz ............................ 1883-1948

                          (Military governor)

                          + Walter von Reichenau ......................... 1884-1942

                          (Military governor)

13 Oct     - 25 Oct 1939 Curt Liebmann .................................. 1881-1960

                          (Military governor)

16 Oct      - 25 Oct 1939 Kessler

25 Oct 1939 - 31 Jan 1940 Friedrich Schmidt .............................. 1902-1973

01 Feb 1940 - 10 Apr 1942 Ernst Otto Emil Zorner

10 Apr 1942 - 26 May 1943 Ludwig Fischer ................................. 1905-1947

26 May 1943 - 23 Jul 1944 Richard Wendler ................................ 1898-1972

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Radom

Governors

28 Dec 1939 - 31 Jul 1941 Karl Lasch

01 Aug 1941 - 12 Dec 1944 Ernst Kundt

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Waschau

Governor

24 Oct 1939 - 17 Jan 1945 Ludwig Fischer ................................. 1905-1947

Serbia

17 Apr 1941 - 20 Oct 1944 German occupation of Serbia

18 Apr 1942 - 29 Aug 1944 Bulgarian occpation of former Bulgarian areas in southern Serbia

04 Dec 1943               Reincorperation in to Yugoslavia

German Military Commanders

06 Apr      - 20 Apr 1941 Maximilian Maria Josef Freiherr von Weichs

                          + Wilhelm Sigmund List

German Military Governors

20 Apr     - 09 Jul 1941 Helmut Föster .................................. 1889-1965

09 Jul     - 29 Jul 1941 Ludwig Wilhelm con Schroeder ................... 1884-1941

29 Jul      - 19 Sep 1941 Heinrich Bernhard Danckelmann .................. 1887-1947

19 Sep     - 04 Dec 1941 Franz Friedrich Böhme

04 Dec 1941 - 26 Aug 1943 Paul Bader ..................................... 1883-1971

26 Aug 1943 - 20 Oct 1944 Hans-Gustav Felber ............................. 1889-1962

Bulgarian Commander in South Serbia

   Jul 1942 - 29 Aug 1944 Asen Nikolov ................................... 1891-1945

Tunisia

10 Nov 1942 - 07 May 1943 German occupation

German Military Commanders

10 Nov 1942 - 09 Mar 1943 Erwin Romel .................................... 1891-1944

09 Mar - 07 May 1943 Hans-Jurgen von Arnim .......................... 1889-1971

Ukraine

25 Jun 1941 - 02 Feb 1944 German occupation

German Military Commander

25 Jun      - 31 Aug 1941 Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt ................. 1875-1953

Reichskommissare

01 Sep 1941 - 06 Oct 1943 Erich Koch

       1942 - 06 Oct 1945 Paul Dargel .................................... 1903-19..

06 Oct 1943 - 02 Feb 1944 Curt von Gottberg .............................. 1896-1945

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General Districts

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Dnjepropetrowsk

Generalkommissar

   Jun 1941 -    Oct 1943 Nikolaus Selzner ............................... 1899-1944

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Kiew

Generalkommissar

   Sep 1941 -    Feb 1942 I. Quitzrau

   Feb 1942 -    Oct 1943 Waldemar Magunia ............................... 1902-1974

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Krim-Taurien

Reichskommissar

01 Sep 1941 -    Jan 1944 Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld ....................... 1898-1977

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Nikolajew

Generalkommissar

   Dec 1941 -    Oct 1943 Ewald Oppermann ................................ 1896-1965

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Schitomir

Generalkommissar

   Oct 1941 -    Aug 1942 Kurt Klemm ..................................... 1894-1973

                          (1st Time)

   Aug      -        1942 Ernst Ludwig Leyser ............................ 1896-1973

       1942 -    Oct 1943 Kurt Klemm (2nd Time)

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Wolhynien-Podolien

Generalkommissar

01 Sep 1941 -    Oct 1943 Heinrich Schoene ............................... 1889-1945

United Kingdom (Channle Islands)

01 Jul 1940 - 09 May 1945 German occupation of the 'Britische Kanalinseln'

Commanders

27 Sep 1940 -    May 1941 Rudolf Graf von Schmettow (1st Time)

   May 1941 - 04 Sep 1943 Erich Müller

04 Sep 1943 - 27 Feb 1945 Rudolf Graf von Schmettow (2nd Time)

27 Feb      - 09 May 1945 Friedrich Hüffmeier

Chief of Civil Adminisration

09 Aug 1940 - 19 Sep 1941 Friedrich Schumacher

19 Sep 1941 -    Jan 1944 Friedrich Knackfuss

   Jan      - 19 May 1944 Wilhelm Kratzer

19 May 1944 - 01 Mar 1945 I. von Heider

01 Mar      - 09 May 1945 Kurt von Cleve

Weissruthenien (Belarussia)

21 Jun 1941 - 21 Dec 1943 General District of Weissruthenien (White Russia, part of Ostland)

21 Dec 1943 German backed Belarussian Rada is created

03 Jul 1944 Minsk liberated by Soviet Union

Generalkommissare

17 Jul 1941 - 23 Sep 1943 Wilhelm Kube ................................... 1887-1943

25 Sep 1943 - 03 Jul 1944 Curt von Gottberg .............................. 1896-1945