Nazi ethnic cleansing radicalized earlier nationalist population policies into genocide

Evidence

The second largest group of expellees (three million) came from border regions of Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland, including parts of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia), where Germans had been settling since the Middle Ages. While medieval colonists had often adapted to their surrounding cultures, ‘nationalization’ of the different ethnic groups had started in the late nineteenth century under the Habsburg monarchy. The Nazis transformed these nationalist policies into a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing and mass murder in Central and Eastern Europe. The ‘General Plan for the East’ envisioned the eastward extension of the German border by a thousand kilometers, the resettlement of this huge area by ‘ethnic Germans’ (Volksdeutsche), and the enslavement, removal and/or elimination of its 31 million ‘Slavic’ inhabitants. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 49

Categorization

• QUESTION: How much did the Allied-sanctioned expulsion of Germans read as poetic justice for the Nazi General Plan for the East, rather than a free-standing decision?
• XREF: connects to: Adopting nationalist ideology produced mass civilian killing and displacement without prosecution — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 40; Colonial genocide in the Congo preceded and prefigured Nazi genocide — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 898; Genocide extends ethnic cleansing by exterminating rather than just removing a group — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 16 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Genocide extends ethnic cleansing by exterminating rather than just removing a group #expands (0.90) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 16
• Colonial genocide in the Congo preceded and prefigured Nazi genocide #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 898
• Genocide differs from ethnic cleansing in requiring intent to destroy the group #expands (0.80) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82
• The Congo genocide functioned as a precursor to Nazi extermination methods #expands (0.80)
• Genocidal extermination for land theft predated the Nazis #qualifies (0.78) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 886
• Nazism was practiced abroad long before it struck Europe itself #qualifies (0.72) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 182