Heim ins Reich
The slogan Home to the Reich was used by the 1920s and during the period of National Socialism as a political slogan.
Description
The claim that this slogan go back to Konrad Henlein is erroneous. It spread during the Sudeten crisis on September 15, 1938 a call that ended with the words:
"We want to live as free German people! We want to restore peace and work in our home! We want home to the Reich! God bless us and our just struggle. "
At this time the slogan Home to the Reich was already long in use. 1921/1922 was published in Dusseldorf in publishing Dobler Home to the Reich. Journal of the connection of German Austria and the self-determination of other neighboring German territories of the former Austria- Hungary.
1923, in Graz in bulk edition a box labeled Home to the Reich! Peace treaties are only human work! The produced in the Styrian printing printing plant is located on the Austrian National Library.
The " Austro- German People's League in Berlin" has had since 1924 a Home to the Reich Verlag, brought out a monthly journal under this motto until the autumn of 1933, in which the union of Austria with Germany was propagated.
In 1925 in Vienna a terminal manifestation of the Nazi Party under this title instead of what an archived in the Austrian National Library Print recalls.
The words occur, for example, in a letter of Saarbrücken Confessional Synod of 17 April 1934 which was sent to Hitler. The slogan was used in advance of the Saar plebiscite on January 13, 1935. Suggested in the referendum campaign were " German mother, home to you " and " Nix as hemm ".
The slogan became a household word and was not limited to the aspirations, Austria and the Sudetenland to annex the German empire, as happened in 1938 with the " Munich Agreement " and the "Anschluss " of Austria.
Resettlements
The slogan was also used for the efforts to build a Greater German Reich and to lead for German settlers and emigrants as the German Balts back within the limits of the empire. Specifically, this project was the latest under the influence of the Hitler -Stalin Pact from 1939. The practical implementation lay with the people Mittelstelle ( VoMi ), an SS organization, which was almost entirely out of Baltic German resettlers. Between 1939 and 1940, was the organization of settlement of ethnic Germans under the slogan Home to the Reich main task of this Main Office. The VoMi moved to 1940 approximately one million people, mainly in the German territories annexed to - in the Reichsgaue Wartheland (Posen) and Danzig-West Prussia ( Danzig).
The resettlement related, among other things, the populations of the South Tyrol from Italy, Baltic German from Estonia and Latvia, Wolhyniendeutsche from the former eastern Poland and Bessarabia from 1940 German, Bukovina German, Dobrudschadeutsche, Galicia and German Gottscheers. Some of these ethnic groups inhabited - for centuries in part - Areas in Eastern Europe that should be covered under the pact with the Soviet Union. The resettlers were compensated with expropriated land in occupied Poland by Germany, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia or in CdZ region Lower Styria, which should serve as a future " Lebensraum in the East " for the German people.
For relocations along the lines of home made of 1941 produced to the Reich after 1945 prohibited propaganda film Homecoming by Gustav Ucicky with Paula Wessely mood.
Luxembourg
During the Second World War, the German folk movement tried in Luxembourg, to achieve the motto under the Luxembourg connection to the German Empire, as it was convinced of the membership of the Luxembourg to the " Germanic race " ( German people ). However, this was strongly opposed by a majority of the population and led to severe sanctions and oppression on the part of the occupiers who now wanted to force a "voluntary" inclusion in the kingdom.
The documentary " Heim ins Reich " (directed by Claude Lahr ) from 2004, which takes up this theme, one of the most successful film productions Luxembourg.