What year did Heinrich Himmler join the unit that used the concept of Wehrbauer to refer to soldiers designated as settlers for the lands conquered during the German invasions of the Soviet Union and Poland?
Wehrbauer Wehrbauer (] , "soldier peasant") was a concept used by the "Schutzstaffel" (SS) of the Nazi Party to refer to soldiers designated as settlers for the lands conquered during the German invasions of the Soviet Union and Poland.
Hauländer Hauländer is a German-language term for German settlers in Prussia and in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their settlement contracts with owners of the land where they founded villages followed practices introduced into Poland by Mennonite immigrants from the Netherlands and Friesland in the 16th and 17th centuries. These contracts specified certain freedoms not enjoyed by serfs. Villages settled under this law were called "Holęndry" or "Olędry", and the inhabitants of such villages were called Olędrzy (singular: Olęder <-- Hauländer), regardless of their ethnicity (i.e., even if they were ethnically Polish or German).