Original scientific paper
Portions of the History of the Volksdeutcher and Their Exodus from the Territory of Yugoslavia
Ante Laušić
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The history of the German ethnic population in the Danube region has not been adequately treated in historiography. This pertains especially to the period from 1941 to the first post-war years. In this period, only from the area of Yugoslavia, this most numerous and wealthy national minority, with about half a million members, practically disappeared. The causes for its disappearance must be sought certainly in the general constellation of the war, but above all in the rulings of the wartime and post-war Yugoslav regime, which consistently equated the German minority with the Nazis. An immense amount of the minority's wealth was confiscated and given to colonists, mostly of Serbian ethnicity. In order to document the material, alongside a brief summary of the events, the author presents the most relevant original data and literature, so that the reader may be directly and indirectly drawn into further research on the topic.
Keywords
exodus; Volksdeutscher; Germans; Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
127433
URI
Publication date:
10.12.1991.
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