Ethnic Germans that resided in the following areas/nations were processed by the EWZ: USSR, Romania [includes all of Bukowina and Bessarabia], 1939 Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Yugoslavia, France, Bulgaria, and S�d-Tirol Laurence Krupnak wrote: > > The LDS FHL currently has a relatively small number of the total EWZ > records that are available. The US microfilmed all of the captured > German records before they were returned to the Berlin Document > Center. The US National Archives in College Park, MD has the complete > set of EWZ records. > > EWZ = Einwanderungszentralstelle > > Sudenten Germans were not involved in the Nazi EWZ > resettlement/naturalization program. But, like Karen said if former > Sudenten Germans did reside in Eastern Europe during 1939-1940s they > were repatriated (resettled and/or naturalized) via the EWZ. > > ______ > > Lavrentiy Krupniak > > KarenHob@aol.com wrote: > > > > I have just learned that around 1920 ethnic German > > families from the Bohemian > > Egerland chose to migrate to Galicia rather than stay home > > under the rules of CZ. One of the villages they went to > > was Machiniec. > > > > I found one note that indicated the Germans from > > that place were "repatriated" by the Third Recih > > in 1940. That means that Galicians Germans who came > > from the Egerland in 1920 were sent to Germany > > in 1940. > > > > There are a lot of LDS films covering the repatriated > > Germans from Eastern Europe. > > Find them with a KEYWORD search using: > > The LDS currently has a relatively small number of the total EWZ > records. The US microfilmed of the captured German records before they > were given to the Berlin Document Center. The US microfilmed all of > the captured German records that were extant after WWII ended. The US > National Archives has the complete set of EWZ records. > > EWZ = Einwanderungszentralstelle > > > > > Germany immigration 1939- > > > > The 1939- limits the results to titles that include > > 1939 and later years. > > > > I have not reviewed those films and do not know > > if the birthplace of eachperson listed is given. > > > > If someone on the list has used them, please tell us > > what they include. > > > > I searched the Internet with: Galizien Egerl�nder > > and found some of the URLs below. > > > > Some of them are German surname lists associated with > > certain Galician villages that ended up in Russia in > > 1945 and are now in Ukraine. If the surnames are > > not right at the top, just keep scrolling through the > > page until you find them. > > > > The home page at http://www.machliniec.de/ has the > > names of some villages. Click on all the links to explore > > each village site. > > > > Surnames are at: > > > > http://www.machliniec.de/eger01.htm > > http://www.machliniec.de/gal012.htm > > http://www.machliniec.de/gal013.htm > > http://www.machliniec.de/gal089.htm > > http://www.machliniec.de/Images/Droesseldorf%20Ortsplan.jpg > > > > Search all the links at the sites below: Click on the English flag > > for English pages. > > > > http://www.koenigsau-galizien.de/friedhof_m.html > > http://www.koenigsau-galizien.de/friedhof.html > > > > Karen > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/