Expelling people alien to race and ethnicity, and then settling lands with carefully
selected German population, was one of targets of German occupier’s policy to be carried out
on grounds incorporated into Reich. Enforced evictions of Polish people and displacements of
Germans living outside the Reich after 1st World War made tool for execution of that policy.
Displacements of Polish Gdynia inhabitants to the German-occupied Poland are subject of this
elaboration – presented in a broad historical background of events related to establishment
of the city, its existence in interwar times, defense of Gdynia in 1939, introduction of German
occupational administration and selected manifestations of repressions imposed on the Gdynia
population. Plans and extents of the displacements, organization and methods of their execution,
confiscations of properties, conditions in which the expelled people used to be transported
to the German-occupied Poland and their living conditions after the displacements are
covered in the article. Files of catalogue number S 22/00/Zn, regarding investigation carried
out by Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk and focused
on displacements of Polish people from Gdynia to the German-occupied Poland, make
majority of materials described in the article
