Forced Germanization

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Forced Germanization is a political catchphrase that is used in the integration debate.

history

The policy of naturalization of Poland implemented by the National Socialists from around 1941 onwards is called forced Germanization (rarely a policy of Germanization ) . The main aim of this was to win over able-bodied men for the Wehrmacht and to weaken the Polish population. About three million Poles were included in the German People's List . In addition, children were abducted from orphanages or taken from their parents and re-educated in Germany and Austria.

As early as May 1940, Heinrich Himmler had stated in a memorandum on the treatment of foreigners in the East that Polish parents who wanted to apply for a higher education for their "racially impeccable" child would have to send it to a school in Germany and have it there permanently must stay. In addition, all "bloodily valuable" six to ten year old children should be screened out and brought to Germany. The parents of “good blood” could also move to Germany to become loyal citizens there.

Use in political rhetoric

Until 2006, politicians of the Greens used the term forced Germanization to support their stance against the mandatory participation of migrants in German courses and to discredit their advocates. Other terms used were policy of Germanization and compulsory assimilation . After the decision in 2006 to draw up the National Integration Plan, politicians Renate Künast and Daniel Cohn-Bendit said that this attitude had been a mistake.

Media reported in 2013 that the Turkish parents fret Hamburg -home care for children and adolescents from immigrant families with German foster families as part of taking into care by the Youth Welfare Office criticized and that this is not only criticized in Turkey but is there also called forced Germanization; The Turkish consul Berati Alver appealed to Turkish parents in this context to offer themselves as foster families.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Himmler's memorandum on the treatment of foreign ethnicities in the East (edited by Helmut Krausnick ) In. Quarterly Books for Contemporary History 5 (1957), no. 2; Pp. 194-198, here pp. 197-198.
  2. ↑ Article GRÜNE We made mistakes from DER SPIEGEL 22/2006
  3. ↑ Conversation in the journal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation boell.thema with Aiman ​​Mazyek, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Oba Abali, issue 3, December 2005
  4. ↑ Discourse on child protection: Turkish parents fight back. In: taz. May 20, 2013, accessed December 2, 2017 .