Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945

Front Cover
Univ of North Carolina Press, 1993 - 335 pages
Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. He shows how the Re
 

Contents

HIMMER AND THE VOLKSDEUTSCHE
17
THE VOLKSDEUTSCHE
21
FOUNDING THE VOLKSDEUTSCHE MITTELSTELLE
31
THE BURO KURSELL
37
ARRIVAL OF WERNER LORENZ
41
PRERESETTLEMENT VOMI
44
LEADERSHIP
45
PERSONNEL
53
ITALY
154
ESTONIA AND LATVIA
158
EASTERN POLAND
161
THE NACHUMSIEDLUNG AND LITHUANIA
165
THE RESETTLEMENT II THE SOUTHEAST THE WEST AND SOVIET UNION
171
THE REST OF RUMANIA
173
CROATIA AND SLOVENIA
175
VOMI AND THE SLOVENES
177

THE BERLIN HEADQUARTERS
57
VOMI OUTSIDE BERLIN
59
VOMIS PREWAY ACTIVITIES
62
VOMI PARTY AND STATE
64
CENTRALIZING VOLKSTUMSARBEIT
67
VOMI AND THE MINORITIES I THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN BORDERLANDS
73
AUSTRIA
76
ITALY
77
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
80
SLOVAKIA
88
LITHUANIA AND THE MEMELLAND
90
POLAND
93
VOMI AND THE MINORITIES II The Baltic THE SOUTHEAST THE WEST AND THE SOVIET UNION
101
LATVIA
104
RUMANIA
107
HUNGARY
113
YUGOSLAVIA
117
THE WEST
122
NORTH SCHLESWIG
124
THE SOVIET UNION
128
VOLKSDEUTSCHE OVERSEAS
129
WARTIME AND RESETTLEMENT VOMI
131
THE RKFDV
134
VOMI AND THE RKFDV
135
PERSONNEL
137
THE REORGANIZED BERLIN OFFICES
141
BRANCH OFFICES AND FIELD UNITS
145
SS INFLUENCE
148
THE RESETTLEMENT I Italy the Baltic States and Poland
151
BULGARIA AND GREECE
178
FRANCE AND LUXEMBURG
179
THE SOVIET UNION
182
THE RESETTLEMENT III HOME IN THE REICH
184
GERMANIZING THE LEBENSRAUM
185
THE VOMI CAMP SYSTEM
186
THE PROCESSING
189
CAMP LIFE
192
FINAL SETTLEMENT
195
VOMI AND THE NONGERMANS
198
THE VOMI CAMPS AND THE KZS
200
VOMI AND THE FINAL SOLUTION
202
THE MINORITIES IN THE WAR YEARS AN OVERVIEW
205
VOLKSTUMSARBEIT
208
THE VOLKSDEUTSCHE AND THE WAFFEN SS
211
VOMI AND THE MINORITIES III THE WAR YEARS
217
HUNGARY
222
RUMANIA
227
SERBIABANAT
232
CROATIA
236
NORTH SCHLESWIG
239
HE SOVIET UNION
243
GOTTERDAMMERUNG
250
DISINTEGRATION OF VOMI
255
EPILOGUE
257
NOTES
263
BIBLIOGRAPHY
301
INDEX
325
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information