Gau_Magdeburg-Anhalt
Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt
Administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
The Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Formed in 1926 as Gau Anhalt-North Saxony Province by the merger of three smaller Gaue (Anhalt, Elbe-Havel and Magdeburg) it comprised the German state of Anhalt and part of the Prussian province of Saxony. It was renamed Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt on 1 October 1928. From 1926 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.