Relocation for Luxembourg

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On September 9, 1942, the CdZ leader for Luxembourg Gustav Simon announced the resettlement campaign for Luxembourg . In the course of the war, around 4,200 Luxembourg citizens were forcibly "resettled" to the East according to racial standards.

background

On August 9, 1942, a meeting took place at the Fuehrer's headquarters in the presence of the CdZ leaders Wagner , Bürckel and Simon with State Secretary Stuckart , Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Keitel . It was opened that Hitler the "evacuation" of all " anti-socials and criminals," all "inferior" and "by blood not to us hearing ends" for the Alsace , Lorraine agreed and Luxembourg have. Large-scale resettlements would have to be avoided for the time being, but individual actions would be possible according to the will of Hitler and Himmler . The "resettlements" and "evacuations" prepared as a result and implemented at the beginning of 1943 simultaneously affected the areas of Alsace, Lorraine and Luxembourg. With the “Ordinance of the Reich Minister of the Interior on citizenship in Alsace, Lorraine and Luxembourg” of August 23, 1942, “ Germans ” and their families in this region received German citizenship . This was graded according to the racist standards of the German people's list of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum , and also served to increase the number of conscripts in violation of international law. In Lorraine and Luxembourg, SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Castagne took care of the racial selections from November 1942 as "RuS-Führer Rhein-Westmark" .

Resettlement Action

On September 9, 1942, Simon announced the resettlement campaign for Luxembourg. The resettlement of 10,000 families (around 35,000 people) was planned for 1943. By 1944 at least 1,410 families with approx. 4,200 people had been resettled to the east, the Sudeten region and Upper Silesia . A return to Luxembourg was fundamentally excluded. From 1943 onwards , in addition to the families resettled for political reasons, there were primarily those families whose sons did not obey the order to be recruited or who had not returned to their troops. Of those who were resettled, 73 people perished in the camps, including 9 children, who suffered particularly from poor nutrition and inadequate medical care.

According to the district administrator of Esch / Alzig, the resettled people should be "economically eliminated". Your assets were made available to the Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhandgesellschaft (DUT). This also had the task of resettling tried and tested people and Reich German resettlers in order to consolidate the German nationality. A total of 1,415 people of German origin were settled in Luxembourg, mainly from Bosnia and Croatia (659), South Tyrol (432), Transylvania (62) and the beech region (134). Mainly farmers and farm workers who received businesses from resettled locals here.

Commemoration

Memorial of the former Hollerich train station

The Mémorial de la Déportation in the former station building of Luxemburg-Hollerich has been commemorating the deportations of Jews , Luxemburgish forced recruits , resettlers and resisters since 1996 .

literature

  • Gilles Kartheiser: The resettlement of Luxembourg families 1942–1945 , Akademikerverlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-639-47655-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: Race, Settlement, German Blood: The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . Wallstein 2003, ISBN 3-89244-623-7 , p. 322 f.
  2. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: Race, Settlement, German Blood: The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . P. 328.
  3. ^ Emile Krier: The German Volkstumsppolitik in Luxemburg and its social consequences . In: Second World War and Social Change . Ed .: Waclaw Dlugoborski, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1981, ISBN 3-525-35705-2 , p. 234.
  4. ↑ Paul Dostert: resistance during the German occupation 1940-45 . In: Handbook on Resistance to National Socialism and Fascism in Europe 1933/39 to 1945 . Ed .: Gerd R. Ueberschär, De Gruyter 2011, ISBN 978-3-598-11767-1 , p. 142.
  5. ↑ Paul Dostert: Luxembourg under German occupation 1940-1945 , accessed on 18 October 2016th
  6. ^ Emile Krier: The German Volkstumsppolitik in Luxemburg and its social consequences . P. 234.