The Governor of Reichsgau Wartheland, native-born Arthur Greiser,[2] embarked on a program of complete removal of the formerly Polish citizenry upon his nomination by Heinrich Himmler.[3] The plan also entailed the re-settling of ethnic Germans from the Baltic and other regions into farms and homes formerly owned by Poles and Jews.[4] He also authorized the clandestine operation of exterminating 100,000 Polish Jews (about one-third of the total Jewish population of Wartheland),[5] in the process of the region's complete "Germanization".[6] In the first year of World War II, some 630,000 Poles and Jews were forcibly removed from Wartheland and transported to the occupied General Government (more than 70,000 from Poznań alone) in a series of operations called the Kleine Planung covering most Polish territories annexed by Germany at about the same time.