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Office in Nazi Germany
A propaganda poster for German relocation from around the world to populate
Reichsgau Wartheland
The
Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood
(
German
:
Reichskommissar fur die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, RKF, RKFDV
) was an office in
Nazi Germany
, which was held by
Reichsfuhrer-SS
Heinrich Himmler
.
[1]
Adolf Hitler
in his 7 October 1939 order
Erlaß des Fuhrers und Reichskanzlers zur Festigung deutschen Volkstums
appointed Himmler to carry out the following duties:
[2]
- Overseeing of the final return to the Reich of the
Volksdeutsche
and
Auslandsdeutsche
(
Reichsdeutsche
who live abroad
)
- Prevention of "harmful influence" of populations alien to the German
Volkstum
- Creation of new populated areas settled by Germans, mostly by the returning ones.
The commissioner was therefore responsible for the return, repatriation, and settlement of ethnic Germans who lived abroad, into Nazi Germany and German held territories.
[3]
See also
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References
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edit
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- ^
Koehl, Robert L. (1957)
RKFDV: German Resettlement and Population Policy 1939?1945. A History of the Reichskommission for the Strengthening of Germandom
. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press
- ^
Hans Buchheim
[
de
]
,
Anatomie des SS-Staates
, 1965
- ^
Zentner, Christian and Bedurftig, Friedemann,
The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
, p. 768, Da Capo Press, New York, (1997) [1991].