German-Occupied Territories 1939-1945

Last modified: 2005-04-09 by santiago dotor
Keywords: third reich | german-occupied territories | ostland | reichskommissariat |
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• Introduction
• Ostland 1941-1944 (Reichskommissariat Ostland)
• Netherlands 1940-1944 (Reichskommissariat Niederlande)
• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-1945

See also:

• Command Flag for Military Governors (Kommandoflagge für Militärbefehlshaber)
• European Volunteer Units in the German Armed Forces 1941-1945
• Domobrantsvo / Fatherland Guard (Slovenia)
• German Occupation 1940-1944 (Belgium)
• Third Reich 1933-1945
• Germany

In fact local flags were tolerated in the occupied territories under some circumstances: the classic example is the white-red-blue of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I think I am right in saying that in some of the western occupied territories local flags were sometimes allowed. I know I have seen a picture of a propaganda poster from the German-occupied Netherlands which showed the Dutch tricolour in the context of trying to drum up support for the occupying regime. In the Channel Islands local ships were required to use the Jersaise and Guernsaise flags, as obviously using the Red Ensign would not have been permitted (or safe).

The other Reichkommissariaten covered the Ukraine, Norway and the Netherlands. They are usually shown in maps of Hitler's Europe as being outs