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The October 1939 call for Germans to return home (Heim ins Reich) was observed by the Estonian press with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the entire inter-war intellectual atmosphere in Estonia had been quite anti-German. On the other, only the most short-sighted did not realise that although the percentage of Estonians in the population increased by a few percent, and the ‘old enemy’ left, the simultaneous forceful division of Poland did not bode well for the small countries in Europe.
Resettlement of Germans
Source: Magazine "Nädal Pildis"
The October 1939 call for Germans to return home (Heim ins Reich) was observed by the Estonian press with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the entire inter-war intellectual atmosphere in Estonia had been quite anti-German. On the other, only the most short-sighted did not realise that although the percentage of Estonians in the population increased by a few percent, and the ‘old enemy’ left, the simultaneous forceful division of Poland did not bode well for the small countries in Europe.
