Esterwegen [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Esterwegen
Esterwegen is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Geography.
Esterwegen lies in northwest Germany, less than from the Dutch border and about from the sea.
Demographics.
In 2015 the population was 5,280.
Government.
The mayor is Hermann Willenborg.
Concentration camp.
In 1933 a concentration camp was established in Esterwegen. In 1936 the camp was dissolved and used till 1945 as a prisoner camp, for political prisoners and later for prisoners of the decree
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense