This book is
similar to the
Gakowa Memories but much more detailed.
It also contains the story of her husband,
George, whose family left their town Bezdan in
Oct. 1944 before the camps started. His
story is just as interesting as Katherine's.
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic
Cleansing of East European Germans, 1944-1950
Author: Alfred-Maurice de Zayas,
Charles M. Barber, Translated by John A. Koehler (into German)
The Ethnic Cleansing of the
East European Germans, 1944-1950. The tragedy of the largest
ethnic-cleansing event in history. Heimat Publishers, Frank
Schmidt.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian;
Date Published: May 2006
ISBN: 978-0312121594
Allein die
Hoffnung hielt uns am Leben
(Only Hope, kept us
alive)
Author:
Olga Katharina Farca
Published in 1999,
by
Farca Verlag,
ISBN 3-9803759-2-7.
Cover: Die Verschleppung
1945
by Stefan Jäger.
A moving book to one of the largest tragedies in
the history
of the Germans from South-east Europe. Here
facts are published, as they did not
appear so far yet in book form. In
the first part Hedwig Stieber
Ackermann describes the sufferings
she experienced by the Deportation
into the Soviet Union. In the second
part, a photo & a text documentation
during the Deportation into the
Soviet Union & camp lives from 1945
to 1949 of Olga Katharina Farca.
Many human fates are reminiscent
also here. In few words the
survivors tried to describe, which
they went through in this terrible
time.
This
book is dedicated to all the women &
girls, who rest in peace, somewhere
in the Russian soil, buried without
a coffin & without a cross.
No
gravestone, & no monument carry their names. They are
forgotten & only live in the memory of their surviving,
suffering companions. They were not registered, like
the soldiers, & carried no identity card, they were nameless
work-animals.
The
Appointment: a novel
Rowohlt Verlag GMBH.
Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1997
Translation by Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm
Copyright 2001 by Metropolitan Books 2001
Language: English; the translation of the book "Heute wär
ich mir lieber nicht begegnet" as been subsidized by Inter
Nationes, Bonn.
ISBN: 0-312-42054-4
Reprint; 224 pages
ISBN-13: 9780312420543
Publisher's
Note : In an intense
novel set against the backdrop of Ceausescu's totalitarian
regime, a young Romanian factory worker--so desperate to escape
the betrayal and hardships of her life that she sews notes
offering marriage into the linings of suits bound for Italy --is
summoned for interrogation by members of the regime. Reprint.
Ethnic Cleansing Post WWII. A Story of Courage.
The author's remembrances during life in her
home village of Karlsdorf and later Rudolfsgnad,
her family's life under the Partisans, and later
trying to rebuild their lives in a bombed out
Germany.
Between Hitler & Tito
- Disappearance of the Ethnic Germans from the
Vojvodina
Author: Dr. Zoran
Janjetovic,w/Institute For Recent History of Serbia
This book deals with the
disappearance of the Ethnic Germans from the Vojvodina as
viewed from a professional perspective of a Serbian
historian. Of special interest, this book includes a more
extensive discussion regarding the diplomatic issues
relating to the disposition of the German population in
Yugoslavia after the Second World War.
Purchase book via:
Public Affairs Office, University of Mary, 7500
University Drive, Bismarck, ND 58504. It is $25 and
will be sent to you from Belgrade (4-6 weeks).
Blessed as a Survivor:
Memories of a Childhood in War and Peace
Author: Elizabeth M. Wilms
While Elizabeth Wilms was very young, during World
War II, her father was a prisoner of war, and her mother was serving as
a slave laborer in the Soviet Union. She and her brother were placed in
liquidation camps in Yugoslavia. But her family was blessed; they
survived to meet again and later immigrated to the United States. In
Blessed as a Survivor, she recounts her life story before and after
World War II. Six-year-old Elizabeth was an ethnic German (Danube
Swabian) living in the former Yugoslavia when, in the autumn of 1944,
the victorious Russian army first arrived, followed by Tito s communist
partisans, who treated them to a horrific reign of terror. In spring of
1945, Elizabeth and her family were expelled from their home and placed
in several different detention camps, where they were exposed to
sickness, fear, terror, and starvation. They saw death everywhere. She
and her brother experienced long years of separation from their parents
and grandparents. They narrowly escaped being placed in a Serbian
orphanage. Despite her lost childhood and dealing with many hardships
that forced her to grow up quickly, she did not dwell on the past but
instead moved forward. After arriving in the United States, she attended
college and became a teacher the beginning of a new life. Blessed as a
Survivor shares a story of hope and forgiveness that seeks to offer
comfort and inspire other people who are struggling and who feel very
alone.
Borne on the Danube
Author:
Ruth Elizabeth Melcher
Borne
on the Danube, about her father’s life as a
Danube Swabian growing up in Hungary, his
WWII experiences and his immigration to the
U.S. Copies are now available from:
Ruth Melcher, 4624 Bruce Ave., Edina, MN
55424; phone: 952-920-3061.
Cost: $12.95 plus $3.25
shipping/handling.
See:
The Town Crier
by Ruth Melcher
Bread on My Mother's Table:
A Danube Swabian Remembers"
Author:
Ingrid Andor
Ingrid's mother's family
was from Kruschiwl, Yugoslavia in the Batschka.
A Danube Swabian Remembers
examines the effects of the hidden genocide that occurred at the
end of World War II in which a family of ethnic Germans in
Yugoslavia was condemned to be victims of expulsion, ethnic
cleansing, and forced labor in concentration camps at the hands
of Russian and partisan soldiers.
Publisher: iUniverse,
Incorporated, Pub. Jan 2008; 192pp.
ISBN 10 : 0-595-46672-9
ISBN 13 : 978-0595-46672-6
ISBN # : 978-0595-9067-4 (e-book)
C
Casualty of War: A Childhood
Remembered
Author:
Luisa Lang Owen, Charles M. Barber(Foreword)
Published 2002 by Texas A&M
University Press (first
published November 2002)
Hardcover, 328 pages
Not all casualties of war die on
the battlefield. In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its
territory of the ethnic Germans who had formed a part of its human
mosaic. Tarred with their ethnic origins and the conscription of
their fighting-age men into the Waffen SS, the Volksdeutsche, as
these settlers were called, were rounded up at the war's end and
herded into concentration camps. Those who were not murdered or did
not die from the harsh conditions were expelled from the village
homes their families had known and loved for three hundred years.
Nine years old when she entered the concentration camp in 1945,
author Luisa Lang Owen survived the persecution of the Danube
Swabians, eventually finding herself in America,
where she made a new life for herself,
a life that nonetheless held within it the memories and lessons of
the atrocities she had experienced in her homeland. Like thousands
of other Germans in the Danube Valley at the end of the war, Luisa
and her family were chased from their home, lodged in a sheep stall,
and resettled in camps with other Germans from her village. Shorn of
their possessions, given little food or fuel, pressed into hard
labor, beaten by guards, and separated from their families, many
despaired and many died. Luisa barely survived as others succumbed
to malnutrition, disease, and exposure. Her haunting memoir provides
a window into the ethnic cleansing that preceded the recent
exterminations in Bosnia and Kosovo by fifty years—an episode of
horrors that has not appeared as even a footnote in descriptions of
the more recent atrocities practiced in that region. Her testament,
as a casualty of war, bears historic witness and gives insight into
the personal experiences of ethnic cleansing. It stands as witness
to a massive crime that has been conveniently forgotten, a
corrective to a bit of neglect that did away with its victims as a
people, and a personal depiction of what ethnic cleansing is really
about. The problem was not just that they did not want us to have or
to be,” Luisa Lang Owen writes, they wanted us not to have been.”
D
Der Krieg
hat uns geprägt
Wie Kinder den
Zweiten Weltkrieg erlebten
- BAND 1 & 2
Author:
Margarete Dörr
Publishers
Notes:
The
generation
of war
children
- these
are the
1930 to
1945
births.
They
went
through
the
horrors
of war
and the
burden
of war
with
bombs,
flight,
displacement,
hunger
and the
loss of
loved
ones.
After
the war,
she
helped
organize
the
survival
and
contributed
to the
reconstruction.
Their
voices
have
been
long
ignored.
For
their
documentation
of the
child's
experiences
in the
war
Margaret
Dorr has
collected
more
than 500
life
stories
in oral
and
written
form.
There
are also
diaries,
letters,
photos
and
other
personal
documents.
In 22
chapters, it represents the many aspects of children's lives
in and represents the Second World War in their own words
interprets this and comments on the stories in the context
of historical events. The horrors of war are just as
important as the National Socialist education, the crimes of
the regime and the transition to a new dictatorship in the
Soviet-occupied zone. First time, the Danube Swabian and
German-Russian children come into view. At the end reflect
the former war children how war has shaped their lives and
their world view. The book is a contribution to
understanding not only the generation that comes here to
speak. It also becomes clear what their imprint on the
cultural and political reality of our country today.
Language:
German. Hardcover: 1085 pages.
Publisher:Campus Verlag,
Frankfurt / New York, 2007
ISBN-10:3,593,384,477 / ISBN-13:978-3593384474
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Es War Einmal -
The Yesteryears of the
Danube Swabians
The book is based on a conference
Ethnic Cleansing in
Twentieth-Century Europe held on
the campus of Duquesne University,
in Pittsburgh, Nov. 16-18, 2000, and
organized and by Professors Steven
Béla Várdy,
Duquesne University and
T. Hunt Tooley,
Austin College.
Print
publication by editors Várdy,
Tooley and
associate editor, Agnes Huszár
Várdy; foreword, Otto von Habsburg.
Publisher: East European
Monographs (April 23, 2003)
This volume is the result of the
conference on Ethnic Cleansing in
Twentieth Century Europe held at
Duquesne University in November
2000. The conference brought
together sixty scholars, primarily
historians but also
specialists in other fields, as well
as survivors of ethnic cleansing from seven different countries
who presented forty-eight papers. The volume encompasses a rich
array of case studies, behaviors, origins and patterns,
addressing such topics as "redrawing the ethnic map" in North
America from 1536 to 1946, the twentieth century's first
genocide (Armenia 1915-16), ethnic cleansing in World War II and
its aftermath, or recent developments in Kosovo.
Contributing
Authors: Agnes
Huszar Vardy;
Alexander V. Prusin;
Alfred de Zayas;
Ambassador Géza
Jeszenszky; Andreas
Roland Wesserle;
Andrew Ludanyi; Ben
Lieberman; Brain
Glyn Williams;
Cathie Carmichael;
Charles M. Barber;
Christopher Kopper;
Dennis P. Hupchick;
Edward Chaszar;
Eleni Eleftheriou;
Elizabeth Morrow
Clark; Emil
Nagengast; Erich A.
Helfert; Frank
Buscher; Gabriel S.
Pellathy; Gregor
Thum; Hermine
Hausner; Janos Angi;
Janos Mazsu; John
Cerone; John R.
Schindler; Karl
Hausner; Klejda
Mulaj; Laszlo Hamos;
Lt. Gen. Michael V.
Hayden; Martha Kent;
N.F. Dreisziger;
Nicolae Harsanyi;
Otto von Habsburg;
Peter Mentzel;
Raymond Lohne;
Richard Blanke;
Richard Dominic
Wiggers; Robert H.
Whealey; Rubert
Barta; Scott
Brunstetter; Stefan
Wolff; Steven Béla
Vardy and Hunt
Tooley; T. Hunt
Tooley; Tamas Stark;
Tomasz Kamusella;
Victor Roudometof
Ulrich
Merten
Forgotten Voices: The Expulsion
of the Germans from Eastern Europe After World War II
"At war’s end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.
The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted, "Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians." Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil."
Ulrich
Merten
was
born
in
Berlin,
Germany,
and
came
to
the
United
States
as a
small
child
before
the
Second
World
War.
He
was
a
senior
executive
of
Bank
of
America,
working
almost
exclusively
in
Latin
America
and
the
Caribbean.
Currently,
he
is
vice
president
and
treasurer
of a
non-governmental
organization
involved
in
democracy
building
in
Cuba.
From
Franzfeld
to
Mansfield
A
Journey
Through
Tito’s
Death
Camps
This
memoir
conveys
the
journey
of
ethnic
Germans
living
in
an
area
that
had
changed
to a
non-German
nationality
after
WWI
in
southeastern
Europe.
The
towns
existed
because
during
the
Austria-Hungary
reign,
people
were
asked
to
resettle
there
from
northern
areas
of
that
empire.
The
author
tells
the
story
of
her
life
that
began
in a
town
called
Franzfeld,
not
too
far
from
Belgrade.
The
town
now
is
called
Kacareva.
During
and
after
WWII,
the
village
was
occupied
by
the
German
Army,
then
the
Russian
Army
and
ended
up
under
Tito's
regime.
The
men
were
away
in
the
war.
This
town,
along
with
other
German
towns,
was
drastically
changed
after
the
Russians
came
through
in
1944.
The
Russians
took
men
and
unmarried
women
with
them
to
rebuild
their
war-torn
country.
These
workers
lived
in
camps
with
little
food
and
had
to
perform
hard
labor.
When
Tito
came
to
power,
the
Germans
were
stripped
of
all
their
rights.
In
1945
all
Germans
were
forced
into
concentration
camps,
many
of
them
known
as
death
camps.
The
author
and
most
of
her
family
survived,
and
because
of
her
mother's
courage,
escaped
to
Austria
in
1947.
After
re-uniting
with
her
father,
it
took
the
family
five
more
years
to
find
a
permanent
home
in
America.
F
G
GENOCIDE
of the Ethnic Germans
in Yugoslavia 1944-1948
Foreword by Alfred de Zayas
Published by Danube Swabian
Association of the U.S.A., Inc., Santa Ana, California USA.
Licensed by the Donauschwabische Kulturstiftung - Munchen,
Germany. Copyright 2001 by Danube Swabian Association of the
U.S.A. Printed by Award Printing Corp., Chicago, IL.
ISBN: 0-9710341-0-9
To purchase book contact
Peter Erhardt. The book is $10.00 plus $5.00 for shipping. Well worth the money!
GENOCIDE Of The Ethnic Germans In Yugoslavia 1944-1948
Author: Documentation Project
Committee: Herbert Prokle, Georg Wildmann, Karl Weber, Hans
Sonnleitner
Publisher:
Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, München 2003,
European English-Language Edition; ISBN: 3926276479, 224 pages.
The English edition of "Crimes Against the
Germans in Yugoslavia
1944-1948" was published in 2003 under the title
Genocide of the Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia 1944-1948. Why is the crime of genocide,
the international
lawyer Dieter Blumenwitz (1939-2005) in his "legal opinion on the
crimes against the
Germans in Yugoslavia 1944-1948"
finds there is documentation
here. The book describes some 200 pages comprehensively and
clearly the fate of Yugoslavia Germans.
The aim of the
English version is to present a global source of
information for historians,
international lawyers,
political scientists
and other public figures.
She is also thought
to help family history for the many
descendants of Danube Swabian emigrants in English-speaking
countries.
Sections: foreword; Ethnic Germans
in Yugoslavia--Historical Summary; Tito-Regime: Executor of the
Genocide; The Carnage; Deportation of Laborers to the Soviet
Union; Total Expulsion and Transfer to the Camps; Central
Civilian Internment and Labor Camps; Liquidation Camps; Crimes
Committed Against Children; Suffering and Dying of the German
Clergy; Flight From the Camps; Original Size and Disappearance
of the Ethnic German Population in Yugoslavia; Documentation of
Human Casualties; Facts of the Genocide Committed Against the
Ethnic Germans in the Communist Yugoslavia during 1944-1948;
Demand for Rehabilitation; Danube Swabian Chronology; Appendix:
Pertinent United Nation's Documents; Donauschwabisches Archiv,
Munchen.; Maps; 61/2
x 9; 224 pgs.
Images of America German Chicago
The
Danube Swabians and the American Aid Society
Author:
Raymond Lohne
ISBN:
0738500208
Also
Author of
The Great Chicago Refugee Rescue
The German Expellees: Victims
in War and Peace
Author: Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
(June 1993); Hardcover: 177 pages, Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312090978
ISBN-13: 978-0312090975
H
I
In Search of a Warm Room
Author: Anne Jung Holden
An unforgettable story of her
family's life as ethnic Germans in pre-WWII Yugoslavia. This
story of exile and suffering in Yugoslavia toward the end of
World War II attests to the fact that Jews were not the only
ethnic group targeted during the war.
In the Claws of the Red Dragon Ten years
under Tito’s heel
Author: Gruber, Wendelin
An account of his experiences and
observations at the hands of Tito's Partisans in
Yugoslavia from 1944-48, regarding
the murder of 200,000 Banat Swabian civilians in Serbia.
Kitchener,
Ainsworth
Press.
1978.
Translated by Frank Schmidt,
Heimat Publishers.
ISBN:
0969350406
OCLC:
20995599
The Innocent Must Pay: Memoirs of a Danube
German Girl in a Yugoslavian Death Camp 1944-1948
Author:
Maria Horwath Tenz,
John Adam Koehler
(Translator); Suzanne Tschurtz (illustrator).
Publisher: University of Mary
Press; 2nd edition (1989); Hardcover: 179 pg
ASIN:
B00072DLXO
Irene's
Song
Author:
Astrid
Julian
Charleville, St Hubert, and
Soltur, the three sister
villages making up Banatsko
Veliko Selo,
written in 1943.
Still,
it
frightened
Nanji to
think
that of
all the
people
in the
surrounding
villages,
only
Danitza
had the
courage
to come
and
visit.
She
watched
Danitza
walk
down the
tree-lined
street.
The
leaves
of the
young
trees
had been
trimmed
into
small
round
balls.
As a
child
Nanji
liked to
imagine
giant
poodles
living
under
the
village
streets.
When
fall
winds
blew
through
Charlevil,
St
Hubert,
and Soltur,
the
three
sister-villages
making
up
Banatsko
Veliko
Selo, it
looked
like the
poodles
were
wagging
their
tails in
anticipation
of the
good
food the
harvest
would
bring.
www.amazon.com/Astrid-Julian/e/B00HE07JK8
J
Janitscharen?
Die Kinder Tragödie im Banat / Our
Lost Children: Janissaries?
Author:
Karl Springenschmid
Translated (additional notes) by
John Adam Kohler and Eve Eckert
Koehler
Mass kidnapping by
Communists of 20,000 children of ethnic Germans
from Banat. Published
by Eckartschriften, Vienna, Austria.
Translated from German by John Adam Koehler
and Eve Eckert Koehler under the title
'Our Lost Children: Janissaries?' (87 p.).
Published in 1980 by the Danube
Swabian Association of the U.S.A.,
Inc.; Milwaukee: Bolk Printing Co.
Out of print. Copies may be
available from the University of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee (where Ms. Koehler worked), through antiquarian
sources, or via Inter Library Loan.
K
Kinder im Schatten
Author:
Professor Adelbert K. Gauß
A
publication in 1950, the reports
included 53 witnesses, led some
movement in saving the children.
Under pressure from most of the
world, especially the International
Red Cross and other organizations,
the Yugoslav government introduced
reluctantly a "repatriation
delegation office" in Vienna, where
thousands of requests in. poured for
missing children, insisting that the
original birth certificate would be
provided before they would even look
at the papers.
Krndija One Village
from Creation to Destruction
Author: Donna
Kremer
Orchard House Press, Mar 30,
2006 - 349 pages. Set
in the twentieth century, this is the story of two
families over fifty years whose lives intertwine.
ISBN:9781590923214 / 1590923219
An unforgettable story of her
family's life as ethnic Germans in pre-WWII
Yugoslavia. This story of exile and suffering in
Yugoslavia toward the end of World War II
attests to the fact that Jews were not the only
ethnic group targeted during the war.
L
Last Waltz on the
Danube:
The Ethnic
German Genocide in History and Memory 1944-1948
Author:
Ali Botein-Furrevig
Publisher: ComteQ
Communications, LLC; 10/1/2012.
ISBN-13:
9781935232612
In the aftermath of
World War II following the Nazi Holocaust, these
German speaking Danube Swabians were perceived as
Nazi collaborators and, out of retaliation for war
crimes they didn't commit, became Hitler's last
victims, targets of Tito’s barbarous genocide that
resulted in the extermination and murder of some two
million innocent men, women, and children and the
displacement of another fifteen million. The
historical narrative is enhanced by the remarkable
testimony of survivor Katharina Karl, a young girl
separated from her family during the carnage,
hidden, and then placed in inhumane work camps.
(Source: Publisher)
www.comteqpublishing.com/book_detail.php?98
Leidensweg der
Deutschen im kommunistischen Jugoslawien 1944-1948
Die
Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, München,
erarbeitete mit ihrem Arbeitskreis Dokumentation im
Bundesverband der Landsmannschaft der Donauschwaben
aus Jugoslawien, Sindelfingen die vierbändige, 4066
Druckseiten starke Reihe Leidensweg der Deutschen im
kommunistischen Jugoslawien 1944-1948.
Band I: Ortsberichte,
1991 erschienen, schildert die Schicksale der
Orte mit deutschen Bewohnern;
Band II:
Erlebnisberichte, erschienen 1993, bringt
die Berichte von Personen der Erlebnisgeneration;
Band III:
Erschießungen "Vernichtungslager"
Kinderschicksale, erschienen 1995, gibt eine
Aufschlüsselung der politischen Hintergründe und
versucht erstmals eine systematische Darstellung
der Verfolgung, insbesondere der
Erschießungsvorgänge, der Vernichtungslager und
Kinderschicksale;
Band IV:
Menschenverluste Namen und Zahlen,
erschienen 1993, dokumentiert die
Menschenverluste der Donauschwaben aus dem
vormaligen Jugoslawien mit rund 60.000 Namen,
auf Orte aufgeschlüsselt, und in ganzheitlichen
Statistiken, darunter die Namen von 40.000 der
rund 60.00 zivilen Opfer.
Die vier
Bände erschienen im Verlag der Donauschwäbischen
Kulturstiftung, München. Sie umfassen jeweils rund
1000 Druckseiten. Preis: 25,- Euro pro Band. Die vom
Universitas-Verlag München herausgebrachte
inhaltsgleiche Lizenzausgabe der drei ersten Bände
läuft unter dem Titel: Weißbuch der Deutschen aus
Jugoslawien. Mehr über die Donauschwäbische
Kulturstiftung und deren Veröffentlichungen können
Sie auf deren Seite im Internet unter [www.kulturstiftung.donauschwaben.net/]
und dort unter dem Menüpunkt "Publikationen" lesen.
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Preis: 25,- Euro pro Band zu beziehen über die
Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung deren Seite im
Internet unter [kulturstiftung@donauschwaben.net]
M
My journey from
the Banat to Canada
Author:
Nick
Tullius
The
author describes life in a
Banat-Swabian village during and
after WW II.
As a boy he witnessed the
mobilization of his father into the
German army. After the war, the
Romania-Germans were
disenfranchised, dispossessed and
deported. His mother died at a
forced labour camp in the USSR,
while his father ended up in Canada.
The book also deals with his
migration to join his father and his
integration into the new
environment. [More]
Publisher: Author House
2011. 204 pages. Language: English &
Deutsch.
Hardcover, paperback & kindle.
ISBN-10: 1463418353;
ISBN-13: 978-1463418359.
N
Nemesis at
Potsdam: The Anglo-Americans and the
Expulsion of the Germans
Author:
Alfred de Zayas
The
complete story of the expulsion and
spoliation of the Germans from most
of central and eastern Europe, a
process which over two million did
not survive. How the extraordinary
event came about, the role played by
the US and Britain in authorizing
the transfer, and if necessary for
peace in Europe is all covered in
this revised edition. A classic and
brilliant study, author of THE
WEHRMACHT WAR CRIMES BUREAU in Das
Heer. 320 pp.
Authors: Alfred M.De Zayas
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Books; Published: 1979-11
Pages: 296, Language: English
ISBN-10: 0710004109
ISBN-13: 9780710004109
Binding: Paperback (2nd Revised
edition)
O
Orderly and Humane The Expulsion of the
Germans after the Second World War
Immediately
after
the
Second
World
War,
the
victorious
Allies
authorized
and
helped
to
carry
out
the
forced
relocation
of
German
speakers
from
their
homes
across
central
and
southern
Europe
to
Germany.
The
numbers
were
almost
unimaginable—between
12,000,000
and
14,000,000
civilians,
most
of
them
women
and
children—and
the
losses
horrifying—at
least
500,000
people,
and
perhaps
many
more,
died
while
detained
in
former
concentration
camps,
while
locked
in
trains
en
route,
or
after
arriving
in
Germany
exhausted,
malnourished,
and
homeless.
This
book
is
the
first
in
any
language
to
tell
the
full
story
of
this
immense
man-made
catastrophe.
Redrawing Nations: Ethnic
Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948
Edited by Philipp Ther
and Ana Siljak. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc: 2001.
Publication
Date: December 2001 | ISBN-10:
0742510948 | ISBN-13:
978-0742510944
After World War II, some 12 million
Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians,
and tens of thousands of Hungarians were
expelled from their homes and forced to
migrate to their supposed countries of
origin. Using freshly available
materials from Polish, Ukrainian,
Russian, Czechoslovak, German, British,
and American archives, the contributors
to this book provide a sweeping,
detailed account of the turmoil caused
by the huge wave of forced migration
during the nascent Cold War. The book
also documents the deep and lasting
political, social, and economic
consequences of this traumatic time,
raising difficult questions about the
effect of forced migration on postwar
reconstruction, the rise of Communism,
and the growing tensions between Western
Europe and the Eastern bloc. Those
interested in European Cold-War history
will find this book indispensable for
understanding the profound--but hitherto
little known--upheavals caused by the
massive ethnic cleansing that took place
from 1944 to 1948.
S
Seven Susannahs: daughters of
the Danube
Author:
Eve Eckert Koehler
Published
by the Danube Swabian Societies of the United States and
Canada to commemorate America's Bicentennial, January 1976, Unknown Binding, 86 pgs.
Printed by Schmidt Bros. Printing Co., Inc., Milwaukee, WI.
Library of Congress Catalog Number:
76-358978
85 Pages, soft cover. B&W photos, other illustrations, music
scores, bibliography, map printed inside covers. The author, born in
Tolna County, Hungary, emigrated to Canada as a child in 1927 and at
time of writing lived in Milwaukee, WI. From description: “When her
children asked, ‘What are we? German, Hungarian, Yugoslavian, or
what?” she wrote this book in response about Swabian heritage, “the
first narrative history of the Danube Swabians in English. The story
begins at the source of the Danube and takes us across 1,800 miles
to the mouth in Romania and Russia,” based around interviews with
several women of the variation Susanna of Swabian heritage.
T
The
Innocent Must Pay, Memoirs
of a Danube German Girl in a
Yugoslavian Death Camp 1944
- 1948
Author:
Maria Horwath Tenz
Publisher: University of
Mary Press; 2nd edition, the English version was published in
1991. Hardcover: 179 pages. ASIN: B00072DLXO
This book is an English
translation of "Vier Jahre Meines Lebens: Als Maedchen im
Hungerlager Rudolfsgnad" by Maria Horwath. It is the experiences
of a 14-year old Banat girl in the infamous Rudolfsgnad
starvation camp. It illustrates the sense of responsibility as
part of the culture of even relatively Banat children even under
extremely adverse circumstances. The book is nicely illustrated
by the Donauschwab artist, Susanna Tschurtz.
The memoirs of a teenage
girl caught up in the
cruelty and barbarism which
raged throughout Europe
during and after World War
II and her experience in the
Rudolfsgnad prison camp in
Yugoslavia, 179 pgs.
Mrs. Tenz passed away
February, 2007.
It was originally published
in 1987 under the title,
VIER JAHRE MEINES LEBENS,
ALS MÄDCHEN IM HUNGERLAGER
RUDOLSFGNAD, Lizenzausgabe
mit Genehmigung des
Eugen-Verlas, München/Bayern.
In 1988-89 this book was
revised and translated with
the assistance of her son,
Mr. Helmut Tenz, and the
Danube Swabian Association,
USA, Inc., and the Danube
Swabian Foundation USA, Inc.
and other associates.
Tränen statt Brot 1944-1948
Author: Filip, Wilma
(E: Tears instead of bread,
1944-1948)
It
happened in Kikinda, Yugoslavia, in
November 1944. There and in many
other places in Yugoslavia all the
people who contributed a German
name, have been deprived of their
freedom, disenfranchised, driven
from house and home, liquidated,
interned in camps, where they died
in their thousands to March 1948.
These events reported Wilma Filip.
1944-1948 in Serbian
Banat 235 S. m. v.
Abbildungen, Paperback.
235 Pages. Language: Deutsch
Publisher: Hess, Bad
Schussenried; Auflage: 1 (1. Mai 2002)
ISBN-10:
3873361647 / ISBN-13: 978-3873361645
U
V
Völkermord der Tito-Partisanen
1944-1948 Die
Vernichtung der altösterreichischen
deutschen Volksgruppe in Jugoslawien
und die Massaker an Kroaten und
Slowenen
(Genocideof the Tito
partisans
1944-1948:
The Destruction of theold AustrianGerman minority inYugoslavia and themassacre ofKroaten und Slowenen)
WalterNeuner (Foreword),
IngomarPust(Foreword),
GrazAustrian
Historical
Association
f. Kärnten u. Steiermark (Editor)
Österreichische
Historiker-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Kärnten und Steiermark (Austrian
Historian Working Group for Kärnten & Steiermark)
Hardcover; 368 pages;
Language: Deutsch; Publisher: Hartmann,
Oswald; Auflage: 2. korr. u. erw. Ausg. (1.
Januar 1992)
Valley of the Shadow: After
the Turmoil, My Heart Cries No More
Author:
Erich
Anton Helfert and Donald S. Ellis
Publisher: Creative
Arts Book Company; First edition (February 1, 1997)
Hardcover: 372 pages. Language: English
ISBN-10: 0887391176 ISBN-13: 978-0887391170
A
fourteen-year-old boy witnesses the
upheavals, tragedies and displacement
sweeping central Europe right after
World War II. The action centers on the
Sudetenland, where the native
German-speaking population was uprooted
and forced into exile by the Czech
government at the end of the war. The
Sudetenland, a former province of
Austria which had been given to newly
formed Czechoslovakia by the Allies at
the end of World War I, was annexed in
1938 to Germany by Hitler before he
occupied all of Czechoslovakia. The
territory was returned to Czechoslovakia
by the victorious Allies in May 1945.
Sudden mass expulsions of the native
German-speaking population by the new
Czechoslovak government began soon
after. From occupation by the Russians
to dispossession and displacement by a
new Czech government, and the tragic
loss of his father and older brother,
Dr. Helfert relays the history of his
family and country during the tumultuous
years just after World War II.
Arbeitskreis Dokumentation (Documentation Working
Group)
Verbrechen an den Deutschen in Jugoslawien 1944-1948
Die Stationen eines Volkermords (Thestations of aVolkermurder.)
Author:
Georg Wildmann
Co-Authors: Hans Sonnleitner and Karl Weber With the participation of:
Leopold Barwich,
Michael Eisele,
Oskar Feldtänzer,
Egon Hellermann,
Ernst Jäger,
Ernst Lung,
Josef Pertschi,
Georg &
Käthe Tscherny.
Publisher: Verlag der Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, München,
1998 (Donauschwäbische Cultural Foundation)
ISBN 10:
3926276320 / ISBN 13: 9783926276322
W
The Whip:
My Homecoming
Author: Traudie Muller Wlossak, as told
to Margaret Farnan
Publisher: National Library of Australia /
Golden leaf Publishing: Red Hill, Australia.
