History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

so a Schutzangehöriger is someone from category 3,4 of the volksliste ?

Law / Need advice on name change (from English to Polish) [11]

I think you should just keep the name that you were born with
but you should do what you want but if i were you i would think about it for a good year or so.

Genealogy / If your ancestors were in the "Wehrmacht"... [217]

did they use a german surname or polish ?

Genealogy / If your ancestors were in the "Wehrmacht"... [217]

My great grandfather who was a Volksdeutsche was from Gnesen and he was a Prussian soldier in the German Empire in WW1 and a lieutenant in Wehrmacht in WW2.

My grandfather was sent to Germany to go to school and started his training in the Hitler Youth. Lucky for him a couple months before he was to go into the Wehrmacht the war finished.

My grandfather and his family had very Polish first and surnames but were very very German and identified as being ethnic Germans.

My grandfather and his sister were from Category 3 on the Volksliste

Genealogy / How can the surname Drzewiecki be both Jewish and Catholic? [37]

it is a polish catholic surname that some polish jews adopted because real jewish surnames are like Ben- Avraham as an example all come from Hebrew or Aramaic.

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

yes 100% sure
he also came from a family with a strong military background in Prussian times

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to be considered an ethnic German in ww2 how many German grandparents would you need to have ?

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

interesting. from further investigation into my family history I have found out that my grandfathers family considered themselves as ''Prussian Germans'' from Posen.

out of personal interest I am trying to figure out how many Ethnic German grandparents my grandfather had and I am wondering if category 3 can answer that question?

My grandfathers father was a lieutenant in the German army in ww2

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

@Ziemowit

that's because this is a different document. the document i was telling you about was from after the war (my mistake)

yes its very unusual and interesting they chose to spell his surname the polish way.

do you know how many German ancestors you would need to have to be in category 3?

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

thank you so much that is very helpful !
I think my grandfather was in category 3.

How many German ancestors would you need to be on category 3?

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

what qualifies someone to be '' Schutzangehörige des Deutschen Reiches '' ?

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

thanks for that.
i don't have a translator can you please tell me more about ''Schutzangehöriger'' ?

thanks

History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

Here you go.

anything you can gather from this would help me a lot

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Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

Can anyone tell me more about this document ?

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History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

Does anyone know anything about this (German ) document ?

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History / In WW2 Poland who was eligible to sign the Volksliste ? [48]

Interesting.

My grandfather has a pink colored German identification card of him in WW2

What does that mean?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

So according to Nazi Germany how much German ancestry would one need to be considered German? or an ethnic German?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

so you had to have at least 3 German grand parents to be German? in Nazi Germany times

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

When did the Germans settle in Posen/Poznan/Gnesen/Gniezno area and from where in Germany did they come from?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

When the war started my grandfather along with his mother and younger sister fled to Germany (I think voluntary) so if that's the case on his German Identity card why wouldn't it say

Ethnicity : German NOT Polish?

I guess I have to find someone who has knowledge in this field to take a look at the documents.

If anyone has knowledge about WW2 German identification Cards and is willing to help me please message me your email address on here and i shall email copies of the documents :)

Thanks for everyone's help !

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

Ok so I spoke to a distant relative of mine and apparently my grandfather's father had a German mother.They also told me that its possible that my grandfathers mother also had a German mother. So if that is a fact why would it say on his German Identification Card, Ethnicity : Assumed Polish ??? I am still very confused

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

My grandfather was born in 1929 in Gniezno in the Second Polish Republic. So his Citizenship was Polish.

But the question is how much German ancestry did you need to have to be considered ethnic German and to be in the Hilter Youth ?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

tried to upload the docments it says the files are too big and im not that good with a computer, if you want to see them send me your email address in a message and ill be happy to email them to you :)

thank you

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

if someone who has knowledge about these documents messages me there email ill email u a photo of the documents

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

how do i attach it?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

I have no idea...

I found another card.\

does anyone know about the Pink Colored Personalausweis card ?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

staatsangehorigkeit : Polen

Geburtsort : Gnesen/Polen

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

I am confused to

it says on another Nazi identification card nationality : Polen

@ Harry

I am Australian so I am halfway to being British ;P and I think its important to know my family history no matter what comes out of it because that makes up apart of me.

the question is do you have to be of full or part Germanic to be in the Hitler Youth? if yes then my grandfather was of mixed Polish and German ethnicity which is why he was considered German enough to be fully Germanised... what do you good people think?

Genealogy / my Polish Grandfather in Hitler Youth? HOW? [65]

I was very Proud to be of Polish ethnicity but finding out im not that Polish and im more German is a little crazy but oh well we are all human

I still cant understand why on my grandfathers German identification card it says

Volkszugehorigkeit angeblich : Polen
Ethnicity Assumed : Polish

how does that work if he is considered an Ethnic German? I am still puzzled