@ARTICLE{Turski_Michał_Intimbeziehungen_2022/2023,
 author={Turski, Michał},
 volume={Folge 15},
 journal={Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften},
 pages={53-73},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2022/2023},
 publisher={Zentrum für Historische Forschung Berlinder Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaft},
 abstract={Despite the concerted efforts of the German administration in the occupied Łódź region, German-Polish mixed intimate relation-ships persisted. This article analyzes this issue in the context of the German civilian population, particularly ethnic Germans from Łódź, and Poles. During World War II, the occupying forces sought to prevent the formation and legalization of new intimate relationships between ethnic Germans and Poles. They introdu-ced more relaxed divorce laws to facilitate the dissolution of existing marriages. The Deutsche Volksliste (German Peoples’ List, DVL), established in the spring of 1940, played a pivotal role in this policy. Despite internal confusion and dilemmas, many Polish partners and children in ethnically mixed, legalized relationships were allowed limited German citizenship status as Volksdeutsche in the lowest categories. The process of inclusion and exclusion was deeply intertwined during the classification, driven by the necessity to avoid “ethnic confusion” and the potential displeasure of their German partners. The complexity of this ethnic categorization system and the policies governing ethnically mixed relationships became increasingly intri-cate with each passing year of the German occupation of Poland. However, these complexities did not disrupt the stability of the eth-nic hierarchy imposed by the occupiers in Łódź.},
 type={Article},
 title={Intimbeziehungen zwischen Deutschen und Polen und die Deutsche Volksliste im besetzten Lodz},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/130181/03_2023-HIST-PDF-web.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/historie.2023.148130},
 keywords={mixed marriages, ethnic classification, World War II, German occupation of Poland, Łódź, Litzmannstadt},
}