Führer decree of 1939

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The Führer decree of 1939 was a Nazi-era directive issued by Adolf Hitler that provided the legal foundation for policies of ethnic reordering, including the resettlement and Germanization of populations in occupied territories.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi decree
legal directive
aimedAt consolidation of German rule in occupied territories
ethnic restructuring of Eastern Europe
appliesTo ethnic Germans
non-German populations
occupied territories
author Adolf Hitler
considered part of crimes against humanity in post-war assessments
countryOfOrigin Nazi Germany
follows Nazi racial ideology
government Third Reich
hasConsequence Germanization of selected groups
expulsion of non-German populations
forced population transfers
settlement of ethnic Germans in annexed areas
historicalSignificance provided legal framework for Nazi ethnic engineering
ideologicalContext Lebensraum policy
Nazi racial policy
implementedBy Reich Commissariats in occupied territories
Reich Main Security Office
surface form: Reich Security Main Office

Reich government
surface form: Reich government authorities

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language German
legalBasisFor Germanization of populations
ethnic reordering policies
population resettlement in occupied territories
legalForm Führer decree
opposedBy governments-in-exile of occupied countries
international law experts after 1945
politicalContext Nazi occupation policy
World War II
surface form: Second World War
relatedTo Generalplan Ost
Nazi Germanization policies
signedBy Adolf Hitler
timePeriod Nazi era
usedAsJustificationFor annexation policies
ethnic cleansing measures
mass deportations

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