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The ''Heim ins Reich'' (; German; "''Home into the Empire''" or "''Back to the Reich''"),〔A less literal translation might be "Return to the Nation"〕 was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler beginning in 1938. The aim of Hitler's initiative was to convince all ''Volksdeutsche'' (ethnic Germans) who were living outside of Nazi Germany (e.g. in Austria and the western districts of Poland) that they should strive to bring these regions "home" into Greater Germany. It included areas ceded after the Treaty of Versailles, as well as other areas containing significant German populations such as the Sudetenland. The policy was managed by VOMI (''Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle'' or "Main Welfare Office for Ethnic Germans"). As a state agency of the NSDAP, it handled all ''Volksdeutsche'' issues. By 1941, the VOMI was under the control of the SS. ==History== Prior to the ''Anschluss'', a powerful transmitter in Munich bombarded Austria with propaganda of what Hitler had already done for Germany, and what he could do for his native home country Austria.〔Anthony Rhodes, ''Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II'', p27 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York〕 The annexation of Austria was presented as "enter() German land as representatives of a general German will to unity, to establish brotherhood with the German people and soldiers there."〔"(Marching into Austria )"〕 Similarly, the last chapter of Eugen Hadamovsky's ''World History on the March'' glorifies Hitler's obtaining Memel from Lithuania as "the latest stage in the progress of history".〔"(Hadamovsky on the Memel District (1939) )"〕 Concurrent with this were the beginnings of attempts to ethnically cleanse non-Germans both from Germany and from the areas intended to be part of a "Greater Germany". Alternately, Hitler also made attempts to Germanize those who were considered ethnically or racially close enough to Germans to be "worth keeping" as part of a future German nation, such as the population of Luxembourg (officially, Germany considered these populations to actually ''be'' German, but not part of the Greater German Reich, and were thus the targets of propaganda promoting this view in order to integrate them). These attempts were largely unpopular with the targets of the Germanization, and the citizens of Luxembourg voted in a 1941 referendum up to 97% against becoming citizens of Nazi Germany.〔Paul Dostert, (Luxemburg unter deutscher Besatzung 1940-45. ) Zug der Erinnerung 2015.〕 Propaganda was also directed to Germans outside Nazi Germany to return as regions, or as individuals from other regions. Hitler hoped to make full use of the "German Diaspora."〔Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p. 194. ISBN 0-679-77663-X〕 As part of an effort to lure ethnic Germans back to Germany,〔Nicholas, p. 195.〕 folksy ''Heimatbriefe'' or "letters from the homeland" were sent to German immigrants to the United States.〔Nicholas, p. 197.〕 The reaction to these was on the whole negative, particularly as they picked up.〔Nicholas, p. 199.〕 Goebbels also hoped to use German-Americans to keep America neutral during the war, but this actually produced great hostility to Nazi propagandists.〔Rhodes, p. 147.〕 Newspapers in occupied Ukraine printed articles about antecedents of German rule over Ukraine, such as Catherine the Great and the Goths.〔Karel C. Berkhoff, ''Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule'' p. 192. ISBN 0-674-01313-1〕 ''Heim ins Reich'' in Nazi terminology and propaganda also referred to former territories of the Holy Roman Empire. Joseph Goebbels described in his diary that Belgium and the Netherlands were ''Heim im Reich'' in 1940. Belgium was supposedly lost to France by the Austrian Empire in 1794 and the Netherlands from the Holy Roman Empire in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia. The policy for German Expansion was planned in ''Generalplan Ost'' to continue further eastwards into Poland, the Baltic states and the Soviet Union, thus creating a Greater Germany from the North Sea to the Urals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heim ins Reich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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