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Renordification ( Aufnordung in German) was implemented in Nazi racial theories to counter the effects of what was termed the "denordification" of the mythical Nordic Indo-Germanic ancestors of modern Germans.
The main debate within the Nazi Party revolved around the concept of race: after Otto Strasser's departure, supporters of the Nordic race, and thus of renordification, its corollary, gained ascendancy within the NSDAP.By the 1920s, the SS had the largest number of Nordicism in its ranks. Until 1934, the racial debate within the NSDAP was very active, revolving around the notion of the Nordic race; after this bloody purge, opponents of the Nordic doctrine were systematically removed from the Nazi structure.
In these debates, Adolf Hitler, like Alfred Rosenberg, the two main theoreticians of Nazism in the 1920s, did not expressly settle the question; in 1934, during the debates within the party to rewrite the law in force in the Reich in a National Socialist sense, the debate was not settled, even if the debates reflected a desire to "improve the German race" and to set Jews aside.
Himmler thus promoted a policy of systematically tracking down individuals who, according to SS Racism standards, had German characteristics. This systematic search for "lost Germanic genes" was carried out by means of systematic racial examinations of Polish, Russian, Baltic and Ukrainian populations, in order to integrate into the Germanic Volk elements of German peoples formerly settled in Poland or further east. Children born of relationships between women from occupied countries and German soldiers also underwent these racial examinations, entrusted to the NSV.
This policy also took the form of Child abduction from Poland and the USSR. A network of SS-run orphanages was set up in the occupied territories, serving as a screen for the Eugenics of "racially valuable" children.
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