Part of the General Government zone of occupied Poland
Meeting of Governor Hans Frank in Zakopane with leaders of his Goralenvolk in November 1939
Period
1939–1943
Membership
200
Goralenvolk was a geopolitical term invented by the German Nazis in World War II in reference to the Goral highlander population of Podhale region in the south of Poland near the Slovak border. The Germans postulated a separate nationality for people of that region in an effort to extract them from the Polish citizenry during their occupation of Poland's highlands. The term Goralenvolk was a neologism derived from the Polish word Górale (the Highlanders) commonly referring to the ethnic group living in the Beskid and Tatra mountains. In an attempt to make the Gorals collaborate with the SS, the Nazis proclaimed that they were of Germanic descent, and were thus worthy of Germanisation and separate treatment from other Poles.[1][2]
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Goralenvolk was a geopolitical term invented by the German Nazis in World War II in reference to the Goral highlander population of Podhale region in...
strong Goral population as a separate ethnic group from the Poles. Termed Goralenvolk, they were deemed part of the greater Germanic race and given milder...
Agent of the Abwehr, and a self-proclaimed leader of the Goralenvolk during World War II. Goralenvolk were pro-Nazi traitors who claimed to originate from...
and Romas, yellow; Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians and Goralenvolk, blue. Furthermore, letters were introduced to mark each ethnicity, based...
(1900–1944), Polish painter Józef Cukier (1889–1960), Polish leader of the Goralenvolk during World War II Kenneth Cukier (1968- ), American journalist and...
The Republic's only president was the Polish writer Stefan Żeromski. Goralenvolk Komańcza Republic Lemko Republic Republic of Gniew Republic of Ostrów...
ethnic Poles), Volksliste category 3 and 4, Ukrainians, Highlanders (Goralenvolk) – an attempt to split the Polish nation by using local collaborators...
of forming a brand new Waffen-SS highlander division. Some 200 young Goralenvolk signed up, while offered unlimited supply of alcohol. They boarded a...
they attempted to establish ethnic divisions of Kashubians and Gorals (Goralenvolk), based on these groups' alleged "Germanic component". During the 1930s...
racial laws. Similarly, the Nazis considered the people living in the Goralenvolk area to be descended from ethnic Germans and were therefore classified...
Politics portal Areas annexed by Nazi Germany German nationality law Goralenvolk Selbstschutz Imperial Germans, for a discussion of the different concepts...
Szatkowski (born 27 November 1900) was one of the leaders of the Nazi German Goralenvolk action in the Podhale region of occupied Poland during World War II....
The grouping of Polish Gorals ("Highlanders") into the hypothetical Goralenvolk, a project which was ultimately abandoned due to lack of support among...
other totalitarian governments. Still used by some countries today. Goralenvolk, the Gorals of southern Poland and northern Slovakia, who were considered...
winter resort town.[citation needed] A Nazi attempt to Germanize the Goralenvolk during its World War II occupation of Poland was largely unsuccessful...
Sluzhba Bat'kivschyni, USB) for the Ukrainians, and a similar one for the Goralenvolk. Volksdeutsche were immune from the service (but could volunteer, and...
purpose of the Tatra Confederation was to oppose the implementation of the Goralenvolk action by Germany, aimed at the germanization of the Polish highlanders...
aim of the Tatra Confederation was to oppose the implementation of the Goralenvolk action by Nazi Germany, aimed at germanization of the Polish Gorals....
resistance. He wrote and published underground literature against the Goralenvolk action directed at the assimilation of Polish highlanders into the body...
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