Ordenstaat Polen

The 'Black Heart of Eastern Europe' is the name given to the entity that rules over the former lands of Poland, and never has a state so lived up to this name.

After the invasion and partition of 1939, the German occupation of Poland was solidified with the establishment of the Generalgouvernement. The Generalgouvernement acted as a brutal colonial regime, seeking to utterly quash polish resistance and encourage Germanization. However, the Generalgouvernement, bad as it was, was a relatively mild regime in place of the one that succeeded it.

After the assassination of Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann made a secret deal with Himmler and the SS, who agreed to back Bormann in exchange for greater autonomy from the traditional state apparatus of the Reich. Several of the Reich's occupied territories were considered for a new SS-administered state, until it was decided that Poland was the best candidate, being the most 'backward' in the view of the Reich.

The SS has complete autonomy in the Ordenstaat, and has implemented one of the largest and most invasive police systems in the world in order to maintain their iron grip. Germanization is being fast-tracked, with massive incentives given to Germans to move and resettle in former Polish properties. The majority of the Polish population are held in vast labor camps were they are forced to work until they die. Any act of Polish resistance is met with the razing and burning of entire villages.

Within the Ordenstaat, the SS is preparing for what they see as the final crusade for the Aryan man. They believe it is the Reich's destiny to face off against the Soviet Union, and see Bormann's pro-Soviet trade police as a betrayal of Hitler's original goals.