1938 changing of place names in East Prussia

Place names in Masuria were occasionally changed prior to 1938, and even before the Nazi era. In the district of Lötzen 47 percent of all villages had already been renamed in the Weimar Republic and another 36 percent after 1933. Following this order, the Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and People's Education (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung) set up an expert commission led by the ministerial adviser (Ministerialrat) . The place names invented in 1938 by the government of Nazi Germany still remain in official use in Germany. ==Examples of changed place names==

community centre in Sławików, Racibórz County, with the place names Bergkirch and Weidenmoor implemented in 1936 instead of Slawikau and Lassoky A similar replacement of place names was carried out in other regions of Nazi Germany, especially in Silesia. There, 1088 place names in the Oppeln region were changed in 1936, also 359 in the Breslau (Wroclaw) area and 178 in the Liegnitz (Legnica) area between 1937 and 1938. and Alsace, as well as Czechoslovakia. ==See also==