Nazi program classifying inhabitants of German-occupied territory
Volksdeutsche meeting in occupied Warsaw in 1940
The Deutsche Volksliste (German People's List), a Nazi Party institution, aimed to classify inhabitants of Nazi-occupied territories (1939–1945) into categories of desirability according to criteria systematised by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The institution originated in occupied western Poland (occupied 1939–1945). Similar schemes were subsequently developed in Occupied France (1940–1944) and in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941–1944).
Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) topped the list as a category. They comprised people without German citizenship but of German ancestry living outside Germany (unlike German expatriates). Though Volksdeutsche did not hold German citizenship, the strengthening and development of ethnic German communities throughout east-central Europe formed an integral part of the Nazi vision for the creation of Greater Germany (Großdeutschland). In some areas, such as Romania, Croatia, and Yugoslavia/Serbia, ethnic Germans were legally recognised in legislation as privileged groups.
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compiled specific lists and registered people as ethnic Germans in the "DeutscheVolksliste". In the sixteenth century Vasili III invited small numbers of craftsmen...
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population of Forster's Gau would be classed as German under the DeutscheVolksliste. Although far fewer Poles would be removed from Danzig-West Prussia...
1939; he was later released on 8 December. He refused to sign the DeutscheVolksliste, which would have given him rights similar to those of German citizens...
"capable of Germanisation", and thus classified third category of DeutscheVolksliste (German ethnic classification list) if ties to the Polish nation...
Nazis in different categories according to their "Germanness" in the DeutscheVolksliste. While most of the Volksdeutsche population of pre-war Poland fled...
Everywhere, however, many thousands of people were forced to sign the DeutscheVolksliste, a racial documentation which the Nazis used to identify and give...
with "no questions asked". Under the classifications set out by the DeutscheVolksliste (German Peoples' List), approximately two-thirds of the Polish population...
many remaining Poles fled from Rypin trying to avoid signing to the DeutscheVolksliste, however, many Poles eventually signed under the threat of deportation...
classic grammar school in Mysłowice in 1938. Although never signed “deutscheVolksliste” (German People's List), he was called up into Wehrmacht, sent to...
Poland (World War II), the occupiers forced local Poles to sign the DeutscheVolksliste. Those who refused were beaten to death by the Germans, and their...
politics of resettlement. Univ. of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 1953. The DeutscheVolksliste in Poland, 1939–1945. In: Journal of Central European affairs. 15...
Nevertheless, Joachim had been identified as a category III in the DeutscheVolksliste. As such he was deprived of his property in Ostromecko and banned...
continue running the factory on condition that he would sign the DeutscheVolksliste, which he refused. In December 1939, the occupiers expelled him with...
other Nazi researches worked on compiling the German National List (DeutscheVolksliste DVL), and calculated that approximately 30,000 Polish families should...
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