Bowling alley project

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The bowling alley project was an SS plan to settle certain conquered eastern areas with German emigrants.

First and foremost, the area of ​​the Crimea was to be populated with Germans, which was to be achieved at the express request of Adolf Hitler . Furthermore, Estonia should be provided with German bases. The Estonians should also be declared German citizens as an award for their exemplary behavior under the German occupation.

The model conception for these two areas stipulated that "running boards" should be laid from Germany like a bowling alley. This zone should be cleared of residents on both sides of a straight line. Then a motorway should be built in this zone, and Germans should be settled on both sides.

Practically, the implementation of this project had started in Lithuania . The German settlers residing in Lithuania were forced to give up their settlements and settle on Lithuanian farms. Care was taken to ensure that the Lithuanian farms were larger than those that the Germans had to give up. This should make this resettlement easier for the Germans. The Lithuanians received the abandoned German branches for their farms.

In Lithuania, a structure of German farms was formed like a string of pearls, although the farms were often a few kilometers apart. However, the angry Lithuanians resisted and organized raids on German resettlers. Some German new settlers were killed in these actions. Eventually the project was discontinued.

literature

• Otto Bräutigam, This is how it happened , Würzburg 1968, p. 608