TY - BOOK AU - Lumans,Valdis O. TI - Himmler's auxiliaries: the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German national minorities of Europe, 1933-1945 SN - 0585027315 AV - DD253.3.S68 L86 1993eb U1 - 369/.33104/09041 20 PY - 1993/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle KW - fast KW - Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle KW - swd KW - Germans KW - Europe KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Evacuation of civilians KW - National socialism KW - Allemands KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 KW - Évacuation des civils KW - Nazisme KW - National Socialism KW - aat KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Germany KW - Population policy KW - Geschichte KW - gnd KW - Politik KW - Ausland KW - Duitsers KW - gtt KW - Nationaal-socialisme KW - Tweede Wereldoorlog KW - Deutschland KW - Deutsche KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; 1 Himmler and the Volksdeutsche; Himmler; The Volksdeutsche; 2 Founding the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle; The Gleichschaltung; The Büro Kursell; Arrival of Werner Lorenz; 3 Preresettlement VoMi; VoMi, Party, and State; Leadership; Personnel; The Berlin Headquarters; VoMi outside Berlin; 4 VoMi's Prewar Activities; Completing the Gleichschaltung; VoMi, Party, and State; Centralizing Volkstumsarbeit; 5 VoMi and the Minorities, I: The Southern and Eastern Borderlands; The Minorities and Hitler's Foreign Policy; Austria; Italy; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. He shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these German minorities between 1933 and 1945 helped determine its behavior toward neighboring states UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1583 ER -