In November 1944 all Germans in Yugoslavia
were deprived and free as a bird. Who had the desire to murder a German? That
also happened. Fortunately only a few Germans remained at home. But of these a
few were also murdered. Only the Nazarenes were spared. After the war many
people of Beschka who returned home were either murdered or driven to
extermination camps where they starved or died from an epidemic (typhus). Of
the whole group of people in Yugoslavia 80,000 such victims are recorded by
name. The actual number is much higher because families who were completely
exterminated are not recorded. Of the 157 war victims in Beschka most perished
in captivity after the weapons route, at a time when there were no acts of war.
There is no question who to blame for those victims who also included many
children who died. They must not have starved even once because in Yugoslavia
there is enough food.
It was unjust because all Serbs were
accused of these crimes – also as such those who had lamented the family losses
under German occupying forces did not share in the retaliation against the
Germans.
