Reichsgau Gothland

The Reichsgau Gothland
== History ==
=== Deportation of Slavs ===
Following the capture of Crimea, the groundwork was laid to officially annex the region directly into the Greater Germanic Reich. This would involve the deportation of virtually all current inhabitants of the peninsula and the resettlement of German inhabitants of South Tyrol in the Kingdom of Italy. The deportations began while the German-Soviet War raged on, though sped up rapidly following the end of the war.
The entire Russian and Ukrainian populations of the peninsula were transported northwards to both the Reichkommisariat's of Moskowien and Ural. Of the estimated 750,000 deported peoples, it's approximated that some 50,000 died in transit.
=== Deportation of Tatars ===
While the Crimean Tatars initially supported the German occupation of Crimea, as their oppressive policies proved to be no different that how the Tatars suffered under the Soviet authorities, resistance against the Germans was much a continuation of the former anti-Soviet resistance. For the Germans this resistance showed them that the Tatars, whose collaboration they had always considered to be one of convenience in the war, were in fact communist sympathisers. Thus, not long after the Slavic populations of the peninsula had been sent northwards, the Tatars were also deported - they were spread thin throughout the Reichkommisariat's of Ukraine, Moskowien and Ural, hoping to decimate their ability to show a unified resistance.
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