 Complete the following phrase:  The area was annexed directly to Germany, and administratively became part of the Third Reichs Reichsgau Wartheland, within the districtcounty kreis of Kutno. In December 1939 expulsions began in accordance with Nazi Germanys racial and ethnic policies, which aimed to make the town population purely German. People were forced to leave their houses early in the morning with only an hours notice and could take only of baggage and a small amount of money. Expulsion was very often carried out with violence. People were transported by trucks or wagons and then in sealed trains. The trip was up to eight days long, in terrible conditions. Poles from Kutno were also among the victims of a massacre carried out by the German police in February 1940 near Gostynin see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation. On 14 April 1940, during the 