Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France

The Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France (formally known as Reichskommissariat for the Occupied Territories of Belgium and Northern France) was an administrative unit of the German civil service in the German-occupied Belgium and Northern France during the Second World War. The Reichskommissariat replaced a former military government, the military administration in Belgium and northern France, which had been founded in the same area in 1940. On 18 July 1944 the first Gauleiter Josef Grohé was appointed Reichskommissar of the Territory.

In the context of Operation Overlord the area was conquered by the Allies in September 1944, so that its existence was very short-lived, and subsequently directly connected to Germany (though not under German de facto control). On 15 December 1944, it was divided into three separate parts of the Reichsgau: Reichsgau Flanders, Reichsgau Wallonien and District of Brussels. Edit source text Reichskommissare of the Occupied Territories of the German Reich in the time of National Socialism

Josef Grohé (Belgium and Northern France) | Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) | Josef Terboven (Norway) | Hinrich Lohse (Ostland) | Erich Koch (Ukraine, Eastern / Commissary)

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