Hegewald (area)

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Hegewald was a German settlement area at the time of National Socialism , which was laid out on the orders of Heinrich Himmler in the vicinity of his Hegewald headquarters of the same name (located in a wooded area near today's Oserne military airfield ) around 2 km south of the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr at the end of 1942.

Location of the Hegewald in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine

The Hegewald garrison comprised around 1,000 SS troops and was managed on site by a branch of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi) under the leadership of SS-Obersturmbannführer Erwin Müller ; the construction management was the responsibility of the architect Bernhard Kuiper . After the expulsion of 15,000 Ukrainians , 10,000 ethnic Germans , mainly Volhynian Germans from the districts of Basar, Malyn, Ovrutsch and Jemiltschyne, were resettled in their place by March 1943 . The area included 27 settlements along the Zhytomyr- Berdychiv road :

Other name changes:

  • Hegewald military airfield (today Oserne military airfield )
  • Bach Hegebach (today Hujwa )

In order to protect against the increasing partisan attacks, the regional special representative for resettlement measures of the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) of the SS, Theo Henschel, also ordered the construction of another settlement colony called Försterstadt (today Chernyakhiv , north of Zhytomyr) at the beginning of 1943 . Around 9,000 ethnic Germans were resettled here. From November 1943, the settlers fled from the advancing Red Army , which liberated the area around Zhytomyr on February 4, 1944. The ethnic Germans were only evacuated to reception camps in Wartheland shortly before . In Hegewald and in Aktion Zamość , the concepts of the General Plan East and the “ Umvolkung ” were implemented.

literature

  • Wendy Lower : Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in the Ukraine . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2005, ISBN 0-8078-7691-7 .
  • Isabel Heinemann: Race, Settlement, German Blood. The main SS office for race and settlement policy and the new racial order in Europe. Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89244-623-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendy Lower: Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in the Ukraine . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2005, pp. 162-164.
  2. ^ Peter Longerich: Heinrich Himmler. Biography, Siedler: Munich 2008, p. 605 f.
  3. ↑ Wendy Lower: Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in the Ukraine . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2005, p. 177.
  4. ↑ Federal Archives Koblenz R / 69/215.
  5. ↑ Wendy Lower: Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in the Ukraine . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 2005, pp. 162-179.