Abstract
On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and invaded the USSR. Adolf Hitler divided the newly conquered eastern territories into two new zones, called Reichskommissariate (Reich Commissariats). The Reich Commissariat Ostland consisted of regions that had been incorporated into the USSR in September 1939: parts of Belorussia, part of eastern Poland and the former Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Reich Commissariat Ukraine encompassed the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine, which was only entirely occupied in the summer of 1942. Two more commissariats were planned (for Caucasia and for Moscow), but never realised, as the German armies failed to conquer the entire USSR.
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