Western and Northern Europe
- Reichskommissariat Norwegen (German-occupied territories of Norway); 1940–1945.
- Reichskommissariat Niederlande (German-occupied Netherlands); 1940–1945.
- Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich (German-occupied Belgium and Nord-Pas-de-Calais); 1944. Annexed directly into the Greater German Reich in December 1944 as the new Reichsgaue of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.
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