page_title: Gestapo–NKVD conferences
section_title: Conferences
hierarchical_section_title: Gestapo–NKVD conferences / Conferences
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Nach dem Feldzug der 18 Tage begann die bisher großzügigste Umsiedlungsaktion der Weltgeschichte. Alle Volksgruppen, die Draußen ihre Aufgaben erfüllt haben, rief der Führer zurück in die Heimat ihrer Väter. Sie helfen jetzt mit beim Ausbau und der Fertigung des großdeutschen Reiches. In besonderem Maße werden beim Aufbau des Warthegaues ihre kolonisatorischen Fähigkeiten wirksam werden. Information added by Wikimedia users.Genuine Nazi German propaganda poster, superimposed with the outline of Poland missing from the original, as if the country vanished from the map of Europe even though borders of other countries have been marked with dotted white lines. Showing origins of German colonists resettled during the "Heim ins Reich" action from the east into territories annexed from Poland after the Nazi-Soviet invasion of the Second Polish Republic in 1939.
context_page_description: The Gestapo–NKVD conferences were a series of security police meetings organised in late 1939 and early 1940 by Germany and the Soviet Union, following the invasion of Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The meetings enabled both parties to pursue specific goals and aims as outlined independently by Hitler and Stalin, with regard to the acquired, formerly Polish territories. The conferences were held by the Gestapo and the NKVD officials in several Polish cities. In spite of their differences on other issues, both Heinrich Himmler and Lavrentiy Beria had similar objectives as far as the fate of the prewar Poland was concerned.
  The attack on Poland ended with the Nazi–Soviet parade in Brześć, which was held on 22 September 1939. Brześć was the location of the first Nazi-Soviet meeting organised on 27 September 1939, in which the prisoner exchange was decided prior to the signing of mutual agreements in Moscow a day later. In the following month, the Gestapo and the NKVD met in Lwów to discuss the fate of civilian populations during radical reorganisation of the annexed territories.
context_section_description: The next meeting took place some time at the end of November 1939 in Przemyśl, shared by the German and the Soviet occupational forces between September 1939 and June 1941. Apart from talks of fighting Polish resistance, the Soviets and the Germans discussed ways of exchanging Polish POWs. Also, first discussions about the occupation of Poland were started. Some historians claim this meeting took place in Lwów. It is also claimed a meeting was held in December.
caption: Dark gray: the Third Reich in 1939 after the conquest of Poland, with the Nazi-Soviet demarcation line (centre), and locations of German colonisers from the Soviet "sphere of influence" brought in Heim ins Reich into the annexed territories of Poland. Genuine Nazi German propaganda poster, superimposed with red outline of Poland missing from the original, as if the country vanished from the map of Europe even though borders of all other countries (except for annexed Austria and occupied western Czechoslovakia) have been marked by the publisher with dotted white lines.
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