Pruchna [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Pruchna
Pruchna is a village in Gmina Strumień, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 2,442 (2008).
Etymology.
Originally the name of the village was "Prochna" or "Prochno". The name of the village is of topographic origin and is derived from the rotten trees ("próchno" in Polish denotes dry rot). It was sometimes Germanised as "Pruchnau".
History.
The village lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It was
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