Thirty special SS squads took over villages where ethnic Germans predominated and expelled or shot Jews or Slavs living in them.[53] The Hegewald colony was set up in the Ukraine.[54] Ukrainians were forcibly deported, and ethnic Germans forcibly relocated there.[55] Racial assignment was carried out in a confused manner: the Reich rule was three German grandparents, but some asserted that any person who acted like a German and evinced no "racial concerns" should be eligible.[56]