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| Gau Upper Silesia | |||||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
| 1941–1945 | |||||||||||
.svg) Flag | |||||||||||
 Upper Silesia in gray, bordering the General Government | |||||||||||
| Capital | Kattowitz | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| Gauleiter | |||||||||||
• 1941–1945 | Fritz Bracht | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 27 January 1941 | |||||||||||
| 1 August 1945 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland Czech Republic | ||||||||||
The Gau Upper Silesia (German: Gau Oberschlesien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945 in the Upper Silesia part of the Prussian Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia on 27 January 1941. The Gau included territory annexed by Nazi Germany after the German invasion of Poland.
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