ABSTRACT

Himself a victim of the new nationalist wave now sweeping Europe, Paul Schiemann had earlier predicted that in attacking the Jews, Hitler was forging the very weapon that would ultimately be used against the Auslandsdeutschen. The truth of this was soon to be confirmed by events in Schiemann’s Baltic homeland, where the onset of economic depression had already created far more political space for those nationalist forces committed to undermining, even eliminating foreign influence and thereby building more ‘complete’ nation-states. 1