The Bukovina Germans (German: Bukowina Deutsche or Buchenland Deutsche) are a German ethnic group which settled in Bukovina, a historical region situated at the crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. Their main demographic presence lasted from the last quarter of the 18th century, when Bukovina was annexed by the Habsburg Empire, until 1940, when nearly all Bukovina Germans (almost 100,000 people) were resettled into the Third Reich as a part of Heim ins Reich national socialist population transfer policy.