R. M. Douglas. Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. Yale University Press, 2012. ISBN 0300183763. с. 21. In a keynote address to the Reichstag to mark the end of the 'Polish campaign', Hitler announced on October 6, 1939... the Heim ins Reich (Back to the Reich) program. The prospect horrified many ethnic Germans, much of whose enthusiasm for Nazism had been predicated on the expectation that the boundaries of the Reich would, as in the cases of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Danzig, extend to embrace them. The prospect of being uprooted from their homes to face an uncertain future not even in Germany proper, but in the considerably less salubrious environment of western Poland, was much less attractive. So far from rallying enthusiastically to the Führer's call, therefore, many Volksdeutsche greeted the declaration of the Heim in Reich initiative with a deep sense of betrayal.
Lynn M. Tesser. Europe´s pivotal peace projects: Ethnic separation and European integration. Т. March 2015 Issue 6. European Policy Analysis. Heim ins Reich, with approximately 600 000 Germans (Volksdeutsche) moving into designated areas [was approved by Hitler, in] a bevy of population exchange agreements in 1938 – 40 [including] in a 6 October 1939 Reichstag speech.
