"The German invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War was central to Nazi plans for territorial expansion and genocidal demographic revolution. To create "living space," Nazi Germany pursued two policies. The first was the systematic murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, and other groups that the Nazis found undesirable on racial, religious, ethnic, ideological, hereditary, or behavioral ...

Refugees walking on the road. Several shots of people sitting by river, near destroyed bridge (narration identifies them as Volksdeutsche); people arrive at riverbank in small boats. Sick and wounded are helped to walk, refugees eating (all identified as "suffering Volksdeutsche"). German soldier hands out candy to little girl; kids gathered around in small crowd. Bandaged, forlorn men.

Orders initiated by the City Ministry. Appeal to the citizens. Fascist propaganda posters, leaflets, interrogation reports, explanatory notes of prisoners of war. Information about the formation of Cossak units. Information about "Volksdeutsche".

Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti

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Using memos and correspondence of lower-level officials, analyzes the processes in 1939-41 that led to the Final Solution in the context of Nazi demographic policy. The Warthegau (and eventually all of Poland and large sections of the USSR) was to be settled by Volksdeutsche. To make room for these, hundreds of thousands of Slavs and all the Jews were to be deported. When deportations could not keep ...

"In 1939 Nazi Germany incorporated western Poland into the Reich and recognized Germans with Polish citizenship as Volksdeutsche. Following Germany's defeat in 1945, communist-dominated Poland incorporated eastern Germany, recognized German citizens of Polish origin as members of the Polish nation, and established a procedure for Volksdeutsche to rejoin the nation. My study focuses on the processes ...

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Contains records related to the forced expulsion of Jews and Poles from Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Poznań (Posen), Poland, and the insertion of ethnic Germans ("Volksdeutsche") in their place.

Akta osobowe więźniów z lat 1940-1942, sygn. 1. Akta dotyczące działalności służbowej nadsekretarza Alfreda Fritscha z lat [1932] 1939-1944, sygn. 2.