Heim ins Reich

El Heim ins Reich (en español: Vuelta al Reich) fue una política exterior seguida por Adolf Hitler durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a partir de 1938. El objetivo de la iniciativa de Hitler era convencer a todo el Volksdeutsche (alemanes étnicos) que vivía fuera de la Alemania nazi (por ejemplo, en Austria, Checoslovaquia y los distritos occidentales de Polonia) que debía esforzarse por llevar estas regiones "de vuelta" a la Gran Alemania, pero también reubicarse desde territorios que no estaban bajo el control alemán, después de la conquista de Polonia de conformidad con el pacto nazi-soviético.^[2] El manifiesto Heim ins Reich apuntó a áreas cedidas en Versalles a la recién nacida nación de Polonia, así como a otras áreas que fueron habitadas por importantes poblaciones alemanas como los Sudetes, Danzig y las regiones sudoriental y nororiental de Europa después de 6 de octubre de 1939.^[3]

La implementación de la política fue administrada por el VoMi (Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle o Centro de Coordinación para Alemanes Étnicos). Como agencia estatal del NSDAP, manejó todos los problemas del Volksdeutsche. Para 1941, el VoMi estaba bajo el control de las SS.^[3]

↑ Lynn M. Tesser. "Europe´s pivotal peace projects: Ethnic separation and European integration" Archivado el 13 de enero de 2017 en Wayback Machine.(PDF). March 2015 Issue 6. European Policy Analysis. Heim ins Reich, with approximately 600,000 Germans (Volksdeutsche) moving into designated areas [was approved by Hitler, in] a bevy of population exchange agreements in 1938-40 [including] in a 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech."
↑ Lynn M. Tesser. "Europe´s pivotal peace projects: Ethnic separation and European integration" Archivado el 13 de enero de 2017 en Wayback Machine.(PDF). March 2015 Issue 6. European Policy Analysis. Heim ins Reich, with approximately 600,000 Germans (Volksdeutsche) moving into designated areas [was approved by Hitler, in] a bevy of population exchange agreements in 1938-40 [including] in a 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech."
↑ ^a ^b R. M. Douglas (2012). Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. Yale University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0300183763. In a keynote address to the Reichstag to mark the end of the 'Polish campaign', Hitler announced on October 6, 1939 ... the Heim ins Reich (Back to the Reich) program. The prospect horrified many ethnic Germans, much of whose enthusiasm for Nazism had been predicated on the expectation that the boundaries of the Reich would, as in the cases of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Danzig, extend to embrace them. The prospect of being uprooted from their homes to face an uncertain future not even in Germany proper, but in the considerably less salubrious environment of western Poland, was much less attractive. So far from rallying enthusiastically to the Führer's call, therefore, many Volksdeutsche greeted the declaration of the Heim in Reich initiative with a deep sense of betrayal.

[:1-1] Lynn M. Tesser. "Europe´s pivotal peace projects: Ethnic separation and European integration" Archivado el 13 de enero de 2017 en Wayback Machine.(PDF). March 2015 Issue 6. European Policy Analysis. Heim ins Reich, with approximately 600,000 Germans (Volksdeutsche) moving into designated areas [was approved by Hitler, in] a bevy of population exchange agreements in 1938-40 [including] in a 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech."

[2] Lynn M. Tesser. "Europe´s pivotal peace projects: Ethnic separation and European integration" Archivado el 13 de enero de 2017 en Wayback Machine.(PDF). March 2015 Issue 6. European Policy Analysis. Heim ins Reich, with approximately 600,000 Germans (Volksdeutsche) moving into designated areas [was approved by Hitler, in] a bevy of population exchange agreements in 1938-40 [including] in a 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech."

[:0-3] R. M. Douglas (2012). Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. Yale University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0300183763. In a keynote address to the Reichstag to mark the end of the 'Polish campaign', Hitler announced on October 6, 1939 ... the Heim ins Reich (Back to the Reich) program. The prospect horrified many ethnic Germans, much of whose enthusiasm for Nazism had been predicated on the expectation that the boundaries of the Reich would, as in the cases of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Danzig, extend to embrace them. The prospect of being uprooted from their homes to face an uncertain future not even in Germany proper, but in the considerably less salubrious environment of western Poland, was much less attractive. So far from rallying enthusiastically to the Führer's call, therefore, many Volksdeutsche greeted the declaration of the Heim in Reich initiative with a deep sense of betrayal.

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