Foreign races
Foreign peoples is a national socialist collective term that should be captured with the people who were not " German or related blood " (cf. Nuremberg Laws ) or " German blood ". The term first came in the SS, the police, then in justice and administration in use.
Background
" National community " as a basis " folkish equality"
In addition to leadership principle and supremacy of the party, basic principle of political life under National Socialism was the dominance of the race and thus the " racial equality " in the " national community " as opposed to racial or " ethnic inequality ". The " people's community " there is no legal entity, but the leader 's will was subordinate. On Carl Schmitt's theory of distinctive thinking between "friend" and "enemy" being based, was the right -reducing special position " of alien " persons with the aim of " spin-off " in concrete legal administrative measures. " Foreign " was not a legal, but ethnically - racially defined, namely for political expediency ( Werner Best, 1937). Although "Jews", "Gypsy ", " colored " ( " Negro " ) were of German nationality, but fell after 1935, with the " Nuremberg Laws " as fringe groups of " racial inequality " with minderem right and finally the lawlessness prey.
The ausgliedernde special position was basically also provided for all by the regime regarded as unpopular individuals whose political, religious, criminal or work-shy orientation was " anti-social " subsumed under the heading. There was a progressive transition from the " racial inequality " on the general legal inequality and "alien " to the " Community strangeness ". Thus, the original racial core was abandoned, as the clear will on the use of the term " foreign peoples ". Because Hitler's racial ideas were by Diemut Majer to the outside world " only political means of concealing foreign policy claims to power ".
Principle of rights of the peoples of Eastern Europe and East Central Europe
With the orientation of the "living space policy " to the east, which provided to colonize the Eastern European region for the establishment of " Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation " to the Urals " Germanic ", and announced the Wewelsburg by Himmler in June 1941auf " decimation of the population of Slavic neighboring countries by 30 million " targeted the category of " foreign Nationalists " mainly due to the Slavs, who were not really after the Nazi racial science as a separate race (Hans FK Günther - called " races -Günther "- 1930). Thus, the mutant originally racially informed " ethnic inequality " for volkstumspolitischen principle outside the German " people's community ". Slavic peoples were considered simply as " inferior" and " uncivilized ". It was feared above all their fertility, they would lead to a renewed, dreaded " urge to the West", which is why their enslavement or destruction should be carried out by civil administration and police forces (see General Plan East ). For it was also a special foreign worker status, that of the " Ostarbeiters ".
To pattern a special legally constituted imperial administration in the " Greater German Reich" were " incorporated eastern territories " (cf. Reichsgaue Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia); in the " General " a special legal colonial administration was established. For special law dealing with the " foreign Nationalists " was next to enslavement is also the possibility verschiedenstufiger naturalization include ( entry in the " German People's List" ).
The possibility of naturalization at different levels, however, applied only to the so-called incorporated eastern territories. Naturalized - but with the possibility of revocation - could be called ethnic German, ie German -born persons living in these areas, as well as Poland, who were with the Germans (through marriage, language and culture, etc.). This was done to gain so-called racially valuable children. The goal was to give the kingdom citizenship since 1935, introduced these people after a certain period of probation and to enable them stripping the foreign national status. ( This possibility of naturalization, however, did not apply to the "General Government ". )
History of the term
Already in the Weimar Republic appeared in 1926, the term " fremdvölkisch " in the legal literature in the discussion about the " legal status of minorities " on: After the lawyers Martin Dachselt Poland, Turn, Danes and Lithuanians were " fremdvölkisch " in contrast to Mazury, Friesen and other " not established, scattered over the rest of Germany smaller groups " such as the Ruhr Poles.
Instrumentalization of the " foreign Nationalists " past in today's Poland
End of the war, young men were of Polish origin in the context of dealing with the " foreign Nationalists " in the " Annexed Eastern Territories " recruited into the German Wehrmacht, after they received German citizenship revoked. It must however still be silent in the children and grandchildren of those affected, they do not fall prey to general proscription in the present Poland. So Lech Kaczyński discredited before his election to the presidency its competitors Donald Tusk with the rumor, whose grandfather had been in the Wehrmacht. The Danziger journalist Barbara Szczepula published to the so far only in Polish published book " grandfather in the Wehrmacht ." " Very many sufferers have told me that we can not publish our names ," said Szczepula. In this case, the fate of these people is extremely tragic: they were forced to join the Wehrmacht - in refusal threatened internment in concentration camps. While many were deserted during the war and had fought on the British side against the Nazis, but the stigma remained.