Generalplan Ost
In 1942, Zamość County, due to its fertile black soil, was chosen for further German colonization in the General Government as part of "Generalplan Ost", with the new name of "Himmlerstadt", after Heinrich Himmler. The name was later changed to Pflugstadt (Plow City), a reference to the German "plow" that was to "plow the East". Neither name endured.