I wonder what the events are it describes. It is a very good history, actually, of the Nazi persecution of the Jews up to that time. You mentioned the first world war. It seems a fairly hyperbolic title. The conventional use is turned into a specialised use.
Language changes that way all the time.
After Kissinger uses it, it takes on a second meaning because of historical context. If you are referring to ethnic Germans, it generally means that you are removing them from one place to another. In documents referring to Jews after 1942 it usually means sending them to a camp. Footnote 54 is the one I am after. If you look at the bottom there is FN 54 in black felt pen.