To: Homer_J_Simpson
The hounding of Jews and Poles from the homes which they and their families had dwelt in for generations began as soon as the fighting in Poland was over. On
October 7, the day after his peace speech in the Riechstag, Hitler appointed Himmler to be the head of a new organization, the Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of German Nationhood, or R.K.F.D.V., for short. It was to carry out the deportation of Poles and Jews first from the Polish provinces annexed outright by Germany and replace them by Germans and
Volksdeutsche, the latter being Germans of foreign nationality who were streaming in from the threatened Baltic lands and various outlying parts of Poland. Halder had heard of the plan a fortnight before, noting in his diary that for every German moving into these territories, two people will be expelled to Poland.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
2 posted on
10/07/2009 5:56:23 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
3 posted on
10/07/2009 5:57:22 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
A lot of the Germans repatriated to the Reich, and settled in Poland came from the U.S.S.R, under terms of the Non-Agression Pact. Also sent were various German Communists and others who had fled to the U.S.S.R after 1933. They were brought out by the NKVD, and turned over to the Gestapo. They were NOT resettled in Poland.
The Gestapo, in turn, handed over various emigres and refugees from the U.S.S.R to the NKVD.
8 posted on
10/07/2009 6:14:56 AM PDT by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
For all his many faults, at least FDR didn’t fall for Hitler’s ruse. Obama, the Clintons or Carter would have taken the bait and never known what hit them.
13 posted on
10/07/2009 7:54:33 AM PDT by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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