Zichenau (region)

The government region was created on 26 October 1939, out of Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

The Polish population was subjected to various crimes, including mass arrests, roundups, deportations to forced labour and concentration camps (including teenagers),[2][3] executions, massacres (also as part of the Intelligenzaktion and Aktion T4) and expulsions.

[4][5][6] The Germans operated jails and prisons in Ciechanów, Mława, Ostrołęka, Płock, Płońsk, Przasnysz, Pułtusk, Sierpc.

[8] Polish libraries, museums, archives and industrial infrastructure were either looted or destroyed.

[9] Regierungsbezirk Zichenau was dissolved in 1945 when East Prussia was overrun by the Soviet Red Army.