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2.5.2 New settlement in West Prussia

The National Socialists did not plan on settling the Bessarabian Germans in the „Altreich“ (the actual Germany). The eastern parts (areas taken forcefully from Poland in the so-called Warthegau and West Prussia) were designated for them. This was part of the Nazi plan to restructure and colonize the occupied Polish areas.

After completion of the citizenship process, the Krasna people to be settled in the East were taken from the resettlement camps and taken briefly to the settlement/passing through camps in Lodz (Litzmannstadt), mainly to the camp Tuschin Wald. From there, the individual families were assigned their farms and other formalities of the settlement were completed there.
The sixty Krasna families were settled in the Bromberg region, in the nine districts there, between spring and fall of 1941, on farms which had been taken from their Polish owners just shortly before their arrival there.

In spite of all difficulties, the Krasna families managed to get used to their new environment quickly and refurbish the farms. Many of them were in poor shape.

Life after the resettlement was not easy. Starting in March of 1942, the men were drafted as soldiers and more and more were forced to serve in the Waffen SS, as well. The women had to work the farms by themselves, helped by Polish man servants and maids.
See 8.3, Settlement in West Prussia

en/krasna/d-02-05-02.txt · Last modified: 2019/05/21 16:06 by Otto Riehl Herausgeber