Reichsdeutsche, literally translated 'Germans of the Reich', is an archaic term for those ethnic Germans who resided within the German state that was founded in 1871. In contemporary usage, it referred to German citizens, the word signifying people from the German Reich, i.e., Imperial Germany or Deutsches Reich, which was the official name of Germany between 1871 and 1949.[1]
The opposite of the Reichsdeutsche is, then, depending on context and historical period, Volksdeutsche, Auslandsdeutsche (however, usually meaning German citizens living abroad), or a more specific term denoting the area of settlement, such as Baltic Germans or Volga Germans (Wolgadeutsche).[2]
^Mezger, Caroline (2020-02-27). Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944. Oxford University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-19-259047-3.
^Liebscher, G.; Dailey-O'Cain, J. (2013-11-08). Language, Space and Identity in Migration. Springer. pp. 235–236. ISBN 978-1-137-31643-1.
Reichsdeutsche, literally translated 'Germans of the Reich', is an archaic term for those ethnic Germans who resided within the German state that was founded...
decoration conferred by the government of the German Reich to honour a Reichsdeutsche German mother for exceptional merit to the German nation. Eligibility...
Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany Letter from Lebensborn office to Reichsdeutsche family of Herr Müller in Germany informing that two perfect boys have...
of Germany, and Germans who lived inside of the Germany were called "Reichsdeutsche") was a Nazi movement in Luxembourg that flourished under the German-occupied...
final return to the Reich of the Volksdeutsche and Auslandsdeutsche (Reichsdeutsche who live abroad) Prevention of "harmful influence" of populations alien...
native Latvian elements and replacing them with Baltic Germans and Reichsdeutsche troops. Concurrently, German officers assumed most of the command positions...
v t e German people Historical Bundesdeutsche Reichsdeutsche Palatines Volksdeutsche Diaspora See also Ostsiedlung Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)...
with three responsibilities: first, to retrieve the Volksdeutsche and Reichsdeutsche from abroad and resettle them in the Reich; second, to eliminate harmful...
obligation on all Volksdeutsche in Banat, the first of its kind for non-Reichsdeutsche. One of the reasons for the forced conscription of ethnic Germans was...
State Department. On March 1, 1938, the Nazi government decreed that no Reichsdeutsche [German nationals] could be a member of the Bund, and that no Nazi emblems...
the occupied territories. All the officers at the Trawniki camp were Reichsdeutsche (citizens of the German Reich), and most of the squad commanders were...
March 1, 1938, the Nazi government decreed that no German national (Reichsdeutsche) could be a member of the Bund and that no Nazi emblems were to be used...
Eastern Front in the autumn of 1943, almost 80% of its men were either Reichsdeutsche from Germany or Volksdeutsche from Romania. After its formation in Germany...
1948, millions of ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) and German citizens (Reichsdeutsche), were removed from former German territory now governed by Poland and...
Beginning in October 1944, criminal functionaries from among the German Reichsdeutsche were sought out for transfer to the Dirlewanger Brigade. The important...
000 83,000 2,762,000 million on Volksliste, plus 723,000 resettlers/Reichsdeutsche and a non-German population of 6,015,000 Source: Wilhelm Deist, Bernhard...
residents in 1944–1945, including 7.3 million permanent residents, or Reichsdeutsche (including 1 million ethnic Poles spared by the expulsions, and 6.3...
v t e German people Historical Bundesdeutsche Reichsdeutsche Palatines Volksdeutsche Diaspora See also Ostsiedlung Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)...
became ethnic Germans by registering in the Deutsche Volksliste and Reichsdeutsche retained German citizenship during the years of Allied military occupation...
the existing German-Brazilians. The earlier immigrants were called Reichsdeutsche (Germans of the Empire), while the second were the Volksdeutsche (German...
frequently used. Those Germans living within its boundaries were called Reichsdeutsche, those outside were called Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans). The latter...
and middle-ranking SS members who were pre-war Third Reich citizens (Reichsdeutsche), while the rank-and-file were usually recruited among the Volksdeutsche...
total circulation of more than a million copies. The DZN replaced the Reichsdeutsche Nachrichten in den Niederlanden (Imperial German News in the Netherlands)...
Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. The German cadres of the 21st division (Reichsdeutsche and Volksdeutsche) were absorbed into the SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgsjäger...
World War II, at least twelve million ethnic German Volksdeutsche or Reichsdeutsche fled or were expelled, Barbara Marshall estimates that the number of...
them were already re-settled by summer. Germans were defined as either Reichsdeutsche or Volksdeutsche, resembling the 1st or 2nd category in the Nazis' Volksliste...
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