Gau Lower Silesia

Gau Lower Silesia
Gau of Nazi Germany
1941–1945
Flag of Gau Lower Silesia
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CapitalBreslau
Government
Gauleiter 
• 1941–1945
Karl Hanke
History 
27 January 1941
1 August 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Gau Silesia
Poland
Saxony
Brandenburg
Today part ofGermany
Poland

The Gau Lower Silesia (German: Gau Niederschlesien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945 in the Lower Silesia part of the Prussian Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia in 1941. The majority of the former Gau became part of Poland after the Second World War, with small parts in the far west becoming part of the future East Germany.