Triple Occupation

Banking Systems of the Occupying Powers in the Pre-War Eastern Territories 1939–1946. An Outline

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The present article examines the transformation of banking systems in the occupied eastern territories of the Second Poland Republic in 1939–1946. It briefly discusses the banking policies of the Soviet and German occupiers and the essential role they assigned to the financial institutions they established. The text is divided into three main sections: the first presents the issue of banking during the first Soviet occupation of Poland’s eastern territories in 1939–1941; the second outlines Germany’s occupational banking system in the parts of the Second Republic that were incorporated into the Reichskommissariat Ostland and Ukraine; the third is devoted to the second Soviet occupation in 1944–1945.

Author Biography

Dr. Damian K. Markowski, The Jan Karski Institute of War Losses

A historian, Sovietologist, and graduate of the University of War­saw. He had previously worked at the Office for Commemorating the Struggle and Martyrdom of the Institute of National Remem­brance, now an employee of the Jan Karski Institute of War Losses.

Selected publications
Płonące Kresy. Operacja „Burza” na ziemiach wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej (2011); Anatomia strachu. Sowietyzacja obwodu lwowskiego 1944–1953. Studium zmian polityczno-gospodarczych (2018); Dwa powstania. Bitwa o Lwów 1918 (2019); From the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the Territorial Agreement of „the Big Three”: Redrawing the Polish-Ukrainian Border in 1939–52, in: Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century, eds. C. Ardeleanu, O. Palko (2022).

Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies

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2025-09-23

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MARKOWSKI, Damian. Triple Occupation: Banking Systems of the Occupying Powers in the Pre-War Eastern Territories 1939–1946. An Outline. Totalitarian and 20th Century Studies. Online. 23 September 2025. Vol. 6, pp. 98-115 (PL), 270-287 (ENG). [Accessed 7 February 2026]. DOI 10.12775/STW.2022.06.05.

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Vol. 6 (2022)

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