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OCR: Rather than annex the central area of conquered Poiand l in 1939 the Nazis estabiished and Un occupied an administrative district GENERAL called the General Greater Germany Government This GOVERNMENT ostovel reg ion became the geographic center Of the Holocaust The General Government contained the cities of Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin and million inhabitants including most of Poland's Jews. During the war the region provided the Third Reich with raw materials and cheap iabor, and I territory in which expioit and exterminate the Jews of Europe In the Generai Gove rnment the Nazis established over 300 labor camps and concentration camps as well as five of the six death camps After using the General Government murder the Jews of Europe the Nazis pianned to concentrate the non-Jewish Polish peop ...