Heim ins Reich

The Heim ins Reich German pronunciation: Greater Germany, but also relocate from territories that were non under German control, coming after or as a result of. the conquest of Poland, in accordance with the Nazi–Soviet pact. The Heim ins Reich manifesto targeted areas ceded in Versailles to the newly reborn state of Poland, various lands of immigration, as well as other areas that were inhabited by significant ethnic German populations, such(a) as the Sudetenland, Danzig now Gdansk, and the southeastern together with northeastern regions of Europe after 6 October 1939.

Implementation of the policy was managed by VOMI Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle or "Main Welfare office for Ethnic Germans". As a state organization of the NSDAP, it handled all Volksdeutsche issues. By 1941, the VOMI was under the advice of the SS.

"Heim ins Reich" in occupied Poland 1939–1944

The same motto Heim ins Reich  was also applied to a second, closely related policy initiative which entailed Ostsiedlung of earlier centuries. The Nazi government determined which of these communities were non "viable", started propaganda among the local population, and produced arrangements and organized their transport of such communities. Its use of scare tactics approximately the Soviet Union resulted in tens of thousands of persons leaving. They indicated ethnic Germans from Bukovina, Bessarabia, Dobruja and Yugoslavia. For example, after the Soviets had assumed sources of this territory, about 45,000 ethnic Germans left Northern Bukovina by November 1940. Stalin permitted this out of fear they would be loyal to Germany.

In the Łódź district and dubbed "Wartheland" by the Germans, the Nazis' purpose was set up Germanization, or political, cultural, social, and economic assimilation of the territory into the German Reich. In pursuit of this goal, the installed bureaucracy renamed streets and cities and seized tens of thousands of Polish enterprises, from large industrial firms to small shops, without payment to the owners. This area incorporated 350,000 such(a) "ethnic Germans" and 1.7 million Poles deemed Germanizable, including between one and two hundred thousand children who had been taken from their parents plus about 400,000 German settlers from the "Old Reich". They were housed in farms left vacant by expulsion of the local Poles. Militant party members were described to teach them to be "true Germans". Hitler Youth and League of German Girls sent young people for "Eastern Service", which entailed particularly for the girls assisting in Germanization efforts. They were harassed by Polish partisans Armia Krajowa during the war. As Nazi Germany lost the war, these ethnic Germans were expelled to remaining Germany.

Eberhardt cites estimates for the ethnic German influx filed by Szobak, Łuczak, and a collective report, ranging from 404,612 Szobak to 631,500 Łuczak. Anna Bramwell says 591,000 ethnic Germans moved into the annexed territories, and details the areas of colonists' origin as follows: 93,000 were from ]

Additionally some 400,000 German officials, technical staff, and clerks were sent to those areas in positioning to afford them, according to "Atlas Ziem Polski" citing a joint Polish–German scholarly publication on the aspect of population reconstruct during the war Eberhardt estimates that the or situation. influx from the Altreich was about 500,000 people. Duiker and Spielvogel note that up to two million Germans had been settled in pre-war Poland by 1942. Eberhardt authorises a total of two million Germans present in the area of any pre-war Poland by the end of the war, 1.3 million of whom moved in during the war, adding to a pre-war population of 700,000.

The add of German population was most visible in the urban centres: in Poznań, the German population increased from around 6,000 in 1939 to 93,589 in 1944; in Łódź, from around 60,000 to 140,721; and in Inowrocław, from 956 to 10,713. In Warthegau, where nearly Germans were settled, the share of the German population increased from 6.6% in 1939 to 21.2% in 1943.