Original scientific paper
Victimology of Germans in Županja and the surrounding region (World War II and after-war period)
Vladimir Geiger
Abstract
Based on data found in German historiography/ historiography of the Danube Swabians (Donauschwaben), Croatian and Yugoslavian historiography, historical publicist texts, and the press, along with archive materials, particularly victimologies listing the victims by name, the author expounds the numbers and names of victims, German soldiers who were killed, murdered, died, or went missing in Županja and the surrounding region during World War II and the post-war period, and German civilians who were murdered, died, or went missing in Županja and the surrounding region during World War II and the post-war period. The names that have been established for Županja and 17 villages in the surrounding region so far indicate that at least 225 Germans lost their lives during World War II and the post-war period. About 115 of these persons were men who were killed, murdered, died, or went missing, mostly during World War II, but also in the post-war period, as members of military and/ or paramilitary forces. The rest were civilian men, women and children who were murdered, died, killed, or went missing during World War II and the postwar period. 65 civilians were murdered or died in concentration camps in the postwar period (1945 and 1946). The paper makes an attempt at comprehensive illustration of actual losses of Germans’ lives in Županja and the surrounding region in World War II and the post-war period, with revision of often incomplete and/ or varying data found in German and Croatian editions and papers bringing individual name lists of victims from Županja and the surrounding region.
Keywords
World War II and after-war period; human losses; German minority; Županja; region of Županja
Hrčak ID:
77888
URI
Publication date:
29.9.2010.
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