!!!Gau

Gau, part of a prince´s territory in the Middle Ages, often in 
line with the natural features of the landscape (still preserved in 
the province of Salzburg: Flachgau, Pongau, Pinzgau etc.); during the 
Nazi era used to designate a territorial unit. From 1926 the illegal 
NSDAP considered the whole Austrian territory as one gau; in 1936 it 
was divided up and 1938 every province (except Vorarlberg and 
Burgenland) was made a gau, governed by a gauleiter. From 1940 these 
units were regarded as "Reichsgaue", directly subordinate to the 
administration of the German Reich as defined by the National 
Socialist law (Ostmarkgesetz); accordingly, the gauleiter became 
"Reichsstatthalter".


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