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transferred to the Reich. The total number of ethnic Germans resettled into the Reich has been estimated by some historians at 500,000. On arrival in the Reich, most of the resettled Germans were given German citizenship, and the young men were drafted into the Wehrmacht. In accordance with Nazi racist theories of Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil),the goal was to settle the annexed eastern lands with German farmers; the majority were placed on farms in the Warthegau, formerly the Polish province of Poznan, and a smaller number in the former Polish territory of West Prussia. In order to accomplish this, the SS and German army began to expel Polish farmers from these lands, and German re-settlers took over their houses and farms. In their place, 332,000 German evacuees, mostly farmers, were settled on these lands.
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Nazi party paramilitary security service) and police, with the task of their resettlement to territories of western Poland, recently occupied by the Wehrmacht (German Army), and in the process of incorporation into the Reich. The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (often shortened to VoMi), a department of the SS, carried out the relocation and settlement of the ethnic Germans, known in German as Volksdeutsche. In return, any Russian, White Russian, or Ukrainian living in German-occupied Poland had the right to be resettled in the Soviet Union. As this was a voluntary movement, it was all in one westward direction.
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the Polish West, not urban residents, many of whom were elderly and without children. In winter 1939–1940, about 60,000 ethnic Germans were brought from Volhynia, western Ukraine, first to a transit camp in Lodz in occupied Poland, and because the majority of these settlers were farmers, they were sent to the former Polish provinces of Poznan (Posen), now renamed the German province of Warthegau, or to West Prussia, the region bordering Gdansk (Danzig). The evacuees who were not suitable for farming were settled elsewhere in Germany.
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Resettlement implementation was carried out by teams made up of SS officers and their Soviet counterparts, who interviewed each family individually to ensure that it was of German origin and wanted to be evacuated. The ethnic Germans greeted these teams with enthusiasm and attempted to document their
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At the end of September 1940, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to transfer Germans living in the Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and Bukovina, now occupied by the Red Army. By the end of October of that year, this resettlement was practically complete, with a total of 124,000 ethnic Germans
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For the Germans living in farming settlements in Bessarabia, the German–Soviet Pact was very bad news. They had lived through the Bolshevik Revolution and the early years of the Soviet regime, before their countries of residence were detached from the Soviet Union and given to Romania. Although they
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The population transfer began in the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, where 66,000 and 20,000 people, respectively, settled in Germany in the late fall of 1939. The Nazi government was disappointed in the quality of these immigrants. They wanted farmers to colonize the newly conquered lands in
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This compelled Nazi Germany to take action and relocate these ethnic Germans. By a further amendment to the treaty, dated September 28, 1939, agreement was reached between Germany and the Soviet Union for a population exchange. Hitler entrusted Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS (Schutzstaffel,
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The first twenty-four villages of German emigrants were called "mother colonies". They still developed in the context of the national Russian Colonisation. Those settlements developed after 1842 developed were called "daughter colonies". They were mainly due to the private settlement of native
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obstructed reconstruction work. The early dwellings were usually earth houses with reed roofs. Only in later generations a regulated and independent life in economic, cultural and religious areas prevailed in the German settlements. The colloquial language was German, the official language was
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The Bessarabia Germans represented one of the least numerous ethnic groups which settled and lived in Bessarabia along the passing of time. During the early and mid 19th century, more specifically in 1828 and 1856, the Bessarabia Germans accounted for 1.71% and 2.4% of the total population of
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On the lowest level there were elementary schools in the German villages. In the first years usually someone from the village taught the school children, until 1892, when only graduate teachers were allowed to teach. A gymnasium (grammar school) for boys and girls was located in
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Budschak). In the first settlement phase, up to 1842, twenty-four main German colonies developed. The settlements were put on usually in a valley with gently sloping hills. The farms were up to 50 m wide, and bordered by
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German heritage by any means. Cooperation of the Soviet officials was sometimes positive and sometimes obstructionist, as many non-German anticommunists also tried to leave, usually without success.
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re-settlement and during wartime Romanian administration, there were only a little above two thousand ethnic Germans still left in Bessarabia (accounting for 0.1% of Bessarabia's population).
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Emigrants from the northern and eastern German regions, as well as from Poland, travelled by horse and cart. They were the first Germans to arrive in Bessarabia, in 1814, and were known as
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bricks or natural stone. On the farmyard were stables, threshing-rooms and a stockroom and wine cellar. In the rear part of an estate lay fruit and vegetable gardens and vineyards.
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Church and religion shaped the life of all Bessarabian Germans, because many of their ancestors had once left their German homeland for religious reasons. Abroad they kept the
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Historian Constantin Ungureanu ascribes a slightly different figure for 1856, more specifically 24,200, still accounting for the same total of 2.4% of Bessarabia's population.
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and the village school were included as well. The colonists paid for the maintenance of the church, school, Sexton and teacher (usually a Sexton-teacher in dual functions).
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Despite the incentives granted early on, the living conditions in the colonies were tough. Unusual climate and diseases extinguished whole families. Cattle disease,
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Tsarist Russia settled the German migrants in Bessarabia according to plan. They kept land in the southern region, on assigned far, treeless steppe surfaces in the
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farming for self-sufficiency was a matter of course on each individual farm. Unlike other farming people, the Germans used horses instead of oxen for ploughing.
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Between 1814 and 1842 over 2,000 families consisting of approximately 9,000 people migrated to the Russian Bessarabia. Most came from the South German areas of
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Voices from the Gulag: the Oppression of the German Minority in the Soviet Union, (American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska 2015
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and in the Hymn books. In newly founded villages, places of worship were the first communal facilities to be created. In larger municipalities this was a
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had become limited due to increase in the population. Bessarabian Germans bought or leased land from large Russian landowners and created new villages.
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With the close of the war, most of the resettled Germans in West Prussia and Poznan fled before the approaching Soviet Red Army towards Germany.
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2,000 km journey was between two and six months, depending upon travel route. Many of those emigrating due to religious reasons formed
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The Committee protected the rights of the settlers and supervised their obligations with regard to the Russian government. Underneath the
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The autonomy of the German settlers promised by the Tsar during the recruitment took place via a Russian special authority by the name of
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Source: Ion Gumenâi (1828), Ion Nistor (1856), Russian census (1899), Romanian census (1919), Romanian census (1939), and other estimates
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belt, whose earth is considered among the best farming land in Europe. As such, fertilisation was not needed. The main crops grown were
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Originally, the plots of land given to the settlers carried only numbers, e.g. "Steppe 9". In the early years of the settlement, the
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denomination. Each parish had a minister, who was responsible for several villages within the parish. Besides there was
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As ordered by the Tsar during his recruitment, almost all newcomers worked as farmers. Each German family received 60
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Distribution of ethnic Germans in Central/Eastern Europe in 1925, also highlighting German settlements in Bessarabia.
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was not required due to the high soil fertility. Therefore, it was usually dried and used in the winter as fuel.
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Throughout their 125-year history, the Bessarabia Germans were an overwhelmingly rural population. Until their
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there were seventeen offices for those approximately 150 German municipalities, with one selected area chief (
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Russian. Characteristic of the settlers were diligence, religious devotion, large families and thriftiness.
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After the distribution of passports by German authorities they began the journey in larger groups, known as
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for up to 1,000 visitors, in smaller municipalities this was a praying house, in which the dwelling of the
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began renaming the villages. These designations were reminders of the places of victorious battles against
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church district with four municipalities (Balmas, Emmental, Krasna, Larga). These belonged to the diocese
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was signed. Later, after 1842, the settlers began naming their own villages after their own aspirations –
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Bessarabia. In 1889, they made up 3.1% (based on linguistic criterion, stating their native language as
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did not want to leave their homes and farms, they had absolutely no desire to be Soviet subjects again.
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The building of the 'House of the Bessarabia Germans', the homeland museum of the Bessarabia and
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http://arhivelenationale.ro/site/download/inventare/Vaitoianu-Arthur.-1878-1948.-Inv.-1452.pdf
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as it is currently known, an example of a former typical rural Bessarabian German settlement.
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emblem. On four divisions, the crest symbolises the country's colours and other properties.
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is taken out of the Romanian flag – the state whose citizens the Bessarabia Germans were;
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For the emigrants from South Germany, the journey usually followed the course of the
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on 29 November 1813, in which he promised German settlers the following privileges:
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A treaty of Nonaggression between the Soviet Union and Germany, also known as the
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The majority of the approximately 150 German settlements were organized in 13
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by the first bishop Ferdinand Helanus, where it remained until 1918. Bishop
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Perhaps the most prominent person of Bessarabian German ancestry is former
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Bessarabians already living in the country. The first 24 colonies were:
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Lived in Bessarabia between the early 19th century and mid 20th century
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American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska
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between 1806 and 1812. In this Moldavian region, he established the
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was conquered by the troops of the Russian Czar Alexander I in the
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From 1814 to 1842, 9,000 of them immigrated from the German areas
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Geschichte und Traditionen der deutschen Minderheit in Rumänien
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Main settlement areas of the 150 German colonies in Bessarabia
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in the past (mostly with a significant bygone presence in the
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The agents of the Russian crown went with these promises to
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Ethnic group who lived in Bessarabia between 1814 and 1940
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facing the road. The whitewashed buildings were built of
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History and traditions of the German minority in Romania
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shortly after. The seat of the diocese was relocated to
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The horse symbolises the dearest friend of the farmer.
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Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
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Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
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the Werner school for teacher training was located.
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Historical location of Bessarabia in Eastern Europe.
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Germans from Russia Settlement Locations Google Map
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