Reichskommissariat Ostland

Reichskommissariat Ostland was a Nazi German administrative unit established in 1941 during WWII, encompassing Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and parts of Belarus. It was headed by Reich Commissars Hinrich Lohse and later Erich Koch, operating under the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. The region was central to the Generalplan Ost, a plan involving genocide and Germanization.