JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Heinrich Himmler
Document Summary
Five weeks after the outbreak of the war, hitler proclaimed his intention of creating a new ethnographic order in europe through the resettlement of nationalities. He also announced efforts to clarify and settle the jewish problem. Hitler made himmler responsible for organizing the logistical side of the violent expulsion of whole populations. To organize resettlement policy in the annexed regions of western poland, people were dispossessed and driven from their homes and others were drafted to replace them. The rkf wound up many businesses, amalgamated others, handed them over to new owners. The western regions of poland were annexed in the wake of. German invasion and were to be germanized as quickly as possible and their economic systems adapted to the needs of the german reich. The rkf planners proposed to expel the jewish population and a portion of the native polish population to the central provinces of the former polish republic. The reich commissioner for the strengthening of german.
