TY - ENCYC KW - History KW - United States KW - Canada KW - Germany KW - Germans KW - 20th century KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP KW - Europe KW - Government policy KW - Return migration AU - Grant Grams AB -

"During the 1930s, Germany's industrialization, rearmament, and economic plans taxed the country's existing manpower, forcing the country to explore new ways of acquiring Aryan-German labor. Eventually, the Third Reich implemented a return migration program which used various recruitment strategies to entice Germans from Canada and the United States to migrate home. It initially used the Atlantic Ocean to transport German speakers, but after the outbreak of World War II, German civilians were brought from the Americas to East Asia and then to Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway through the Soviet Union. Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 ended this overland route, but some Germans were moved on Nazi ships from East Asia to the Third Reich until the end of 1942. This book investigates why Germans who had already established themselves in overseas countries chose to migrate back to an oppressive and authoritarian country. It sheds light on some aspects of the Third Reich's administration, goals, and achievements associated with return migration while also telling the individual stories of returnees"-- Provided by publisher.

C4 - 1933-1941 CY - Jefferson, North Carolina DP - ocul-wtl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com LA - eng PB - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers PP - Jefferson, North Carolina PY - 2021 SN - 978-1-4766-4247-5 ST - Coming home to the Third Reich T1 - Coming home to the Third Reich: return migration of German nationals from the United States and Canada, 1933-1941 ER -