During the Nazi invasion of 1941–1944 the Estonian Republic was turned into Generalbezirk Estland of the Reichskommissariat Ostland. The Russian-Estonian borderline acted as its eastern border with the Nazi military administration area of Leningrad oblast, where ‘racially-clean’ "Reichsgau" Ingermanland was projected. The latter included Narva town with its vicinity, that was excluded from the Generalbezirk Estland. According to the alternative Nazi Lebensraum designs, instead of establishing a "Reichsgau" the territory of Estland, renamed to Peipusland, was supposed to be vastly extended eastwards to Volkhov river to allow for Estonians to be resettled there, and Germans to take their place in Estonia.