How Rigasche Rundschau portrayed the Baltic-German resettlement in October 1939

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, grade: 9/10, , language: English, abstract: After the collapse of the Polish state in late 1939 a new political order was established that would change the face of eastern Europe forever. The resettlement of the Baltic-Germans from Estonia and Latvia was one element in this irreversible change and took place just six weeks after the signing of the German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship. Plans were revealed by Adolf Hitler in his Reichstag's speech on the 6th of October 1939. Already on the following day his announcement was published by Rigasche Rundschau, the biggest interwar period German newspaper of Latvia. The call for repatriation marks the beginning of German resettlement actions in the Baltics. Rigasche Rundschau was first published in 1894 in the Russian Empire and was closed after most of its readers left Latvia. Until its end, the newspaper was considered as reliable, read by German minorities all across Europe. Rigasche Rundschau printed its last issue on the 13th of December 1939.