Himmler's Auxiliaries

Valdis O. Lumans is the Cleora Toole Murray Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

"A significant contribution to our understanding of how the ethnic German communities outside the Reich were perceived, supported, and manipulated by German governments in both the Weimar and National Socialist periods."--Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., author of "Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division" "An informative and readable addition to the literature on Nazi racism."--"German History" "The first extended study of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, this book is based on a wide array of primary sources. Lumans helps to explain the politics of bureaucracy in Nazi Germany and provides essential historical background for an examination of ethnic antagonisms which continue to plague Eastern Europe."--Richard Breitman, author of "German Socialism and Weimar Democracy" "This carefully researched well-written volume . . . is the only comprehensive volume on the subject available in any language . . . [and] provides additional documentation for the organizational chaos that passed for governance in the Third Reich."--"German Studies Review"