Wall of blood: the Baltic German case study in National Socialist wartime population policy, 1939-1945
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

This study begins with Hitler's Reichstag Speech on 6 October 1939 in which he famously called the Baltic Germans Heim ins Reich, focuses on their agonizing choice to resettle and on their wartime experiences, and ends with some reflections about the notion of Heimat for the Baltic Germans and their descendents today. It is based on research conducted in three archives: the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland (NARA II), the Bundesarchiv-Berlin (BAB), and the La