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{{Infobox former country
| conventional_long_name = Reichskommissariat Ostland
| status                 = [[Reichskommissariat]] of [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]
| image_flag             = Flag of Germany (1935–1945).svg
| image_coat             = Reichsadler.svg
| coa_size               = 100px
| symbol_type            = Emblem
| national_anthem        = <br> '' [[Horst Wessel Song | Horst-Wessel-Lied]] '' <br> (Horst Wessel Song) (1941-1945)<div style = "display: inline-block; margin-top: 0.4em; "> [[File:Песня Хорста Весселя.ogg | center]] </div>
| image_map              = Reichskommissariat Ostland (1942).svg
| image_map_caption      = ''Reichskommissariat Ostland'' in 1942
| capital                = [[Riga]]
| empire                 = [[Nazi Germany]]
| common_languages       = [[German language |German]] (official)<br><!--in alphabetical order-->
*[[Russian language|Russian]]
*[[Belarusian language| Belarusian]]
*[[Estonian language |Estonian]]
*[[Latvian language |Latvian]]
*[[Lithuanian language| Lithuanian]]
*[[Polish language |Polish]]
*[[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]
*[[Yiddish language|Yiddish]]
| religion               = *[[Russian Orthodox]]
*[[Catholic Church|Catholic]]
*[[Protestant]]
*[[Irreligion|Irreligious]]
*[[Judaism]]
| demonym                = 
| government_type        = [[Colony]] of [[Nazi Germany]]
| title_leader           = [[Reichskommissar]]
| leader1                = [[Hinrich Lohse]]
| year_leader1           = 1941&ndash;1944
| leader2                = [[Erich Koch]]
| year_leader2           = 1944&ndash;1945
| era                    = [[World War II]]
| life_span              = 1941&ndash;1945
| event_pre              = {{nowrap|[[Baltic Operation]]}}
| date_pre               = 22 June 1941
| event_start            = Established
| date_start             = 25 July 1941
| event1                 = [[#Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Belarus)|Belarus added]]
| date_event1            = 1 September 1941
| event2                 = [[#Generalbezirk Estland (Estonia)|Estonia added]]
| date_event2            = 5 December 1941
| event3                 = [[#Generalbezirk Weißruthenien (Ruthenia or Belarus)|Belarus separated]]
| date_event3            = 1 April 1944
| event4                 = Soviet retake
| date_event4            = July&ndash;Nov. 1944
| event_end              = Formally dissolved
| date_end               = 21 January 1945
| event_post             = Surrender of [[Courland Pocket]]
| date_post              = 10 May 1945
| p1                     = Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic{{!}}Byelorussian SSR
| flag_p1                = Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-1927).svg
| p2                     = Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic{{!}}Russian SFSR
| flag_p2                = Flag RSFSR 1918.svg
| p3                     = Second Polish Republic{{!}}Poland
| flag_p3                = Flag of Poland (1928–1980).svg
| p4                     = Estonia
| flag_p4                = Flag of Estonia.svg
| p5                     = Latvia
| flag_p5                = Flag of Latvia.svg
| p6                     = Lithuania
| flag_p6                = Flag of Lithuania (1918–1940).svg
| s1                     = Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic{{!}}Russian SFSR
| flag_s1                = Flag RSFSR 1918.svg
| stat_year1             = 
| stat_area1             = 
| stat_pop1              = 
| currency               = [[Reichsmark| ''Reichskreditkassenscheine'']]<br>(''[[de facto]]'')
| today                  = {{Flag|Belarus|1995}} <br>{{flaglist|Estonia}}<br>{{flaglist|Latvia}}<br>{{flaglist|Lithuania}}
}}
The '''Reichskommissariat Ostland''' ('''RKO''') was created by [[Nazi Germany]] in 1941 during [[World War II]]. It became the [[Reichskommissariat |civilian occupation regime]] in the [[Baltic states]] and the western part of the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]].<ref>
{{cite book
 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=l20PlJtfk0IC
 | title= Guidelines for Special Fields (13 March 1941)
 | publisher= Berghahn Books
 | work= Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political And Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
 | date= 2006 | access-date= 2013-06-25 | author= Alex J. Kay | page= 129 | isbn= 1845451864
 | quote = In the week following [...] 2 May [1941], Alfred Rosenberg produced three papers relating to his preparations for the future administration in the occupied East. The first, dated 7 May, was entitled 'Instruction for a Reich Commissar in the Ukraine'. [...] The second, produced a day later, was its equivalent for the area of 'Baltenland', as the Baltic States and Belarus were at this stage being collectively referred to. In his drafting of the paper, Rosenberg crossed through 'Balten' and replaced it with 'Ost'. [...] The designation 'Ostland' would stick.
}}
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