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During World War II, the Polish citizens of German ancestry that identified with the Polish nation faced the dilemma whether to register in the Deutsche Volksliste. Many families had lived in Poland for centuries and more-recent immigrants had arrived over 30 years before the war.
The Ahnenpass could be issued to citizens of other countries if they were of "German blood", [3] [4] and the document stated that Aryans could be located "wherever they might live in the world". [4] [5] The Reichsgesetzblatt (Reich Law Gazette) referred to people of "German or racially related blood" rather than just "of German blood". [6]
A documentary by Larry Price about soldiers of Jewish ancestry under Nazi Germany, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, premiered on 24 April 2006 on Channel 1. The documentary featured interviews with five soldiers of Jewish ancestry who served in the German military during World War II. [13]
After World War II, large numbers of Germans emigrated to Australia to escape war-torn Europe. New Zealand has received modest, but steady, ethnic German immigration from the mid-19th century. Today the number of New Zealanders with German ancestry is estimated to be approximately 200,000 (5% of the population).
Herman Wirth was a Dutch-German historian who co-founded the SS organization called Ahnenerbe before being pushed out of the organization by Heinrich Himmler. Wirth began his career as a German soldier in 1914, when he volunteered for service in the German Army and monitored Flemish separatists in German-occupied Belgium. In 1917, after only ...
Chester W. Nimitz – Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II [499] Peter Osterhaus – Union Army general in the American Civil War, later serving as a U.S. diplomat; John J. Pershing – officer in the United States Army, rose to the highest rank ever held in the U.S. Army – General ...
Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach (March 29, 1895 – c. October 1945) was an American of German ancestry who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany during World War II. Early life [ edit ]
During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union.