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Germans of Serbia (existing article): Germans of Serbia
This article is a start-class article and associated with two WikiProjects around Serbia (low-importance) and Germany (mid-importance) to increase the coverage of topics around those countries. My idea is to make edits in order to improve the article with more historical information and credible sources.
Early History[edit]
The history of Germans in the territory of present-day Serbia (in Serbian, the population is referred to as Podunavski Nemci/Švabe, in English as Danube Swabians, and in German as Donauschwaben) dates back to the turn of the seventeenth century and is connected with the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire from Pannonia. At that time, the Habsburg state began establishing settlements in the areas abandoned by the Turks.[1]
WWII Occupation[edit]
During the occupation in the Banat, the Backa, Baranja, and Croatia, after April 1941, the German authorities in control of the region recruited ethnic Germans for Waffen SS by way of conscription.[2]
Post-WWII[edit]
In the latter half of the war and post war period (between 1945-1948), of the ethnic German civilians left in the Yugoslav region, approximately 51,000 men, women, and children died in camps where the conditions were maintained to cause death.[3] Debate between different groups exists as to whether or not the violence that occurred against ethnic Germans in the Yugoslav region during this time was in fact genocide.[4]
After the region was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in late 1944, some ethnic Germans fled the Banat region; approximately three-fifths stayed and subsequently suffered by way of disenfranchisement and incarceration due to their association with the Nazi regime.[5]
Present Day[edit]
TBD
References[edit]
A NOTE ON THE ARTICLE'S CURRENT REFERENCES:
I will be evaluating the references in this article as well as adding to them. I have compiled a list of references to use and add to this article in the Bibliography area.
There are virtually NO references in this article, and of the 6 references that are used, only TWO seem to be legitimate / trustworthy sources.To summarize:
Reference 1 - looks valid (census office of Serbia): http://media.popis2011.stat.rs/2012/Nacionalna%20pripadnost-Ethnicity.pdf
Reference 2 - Christopher Ailsby, Hitler's renegades: foreign nationals in the service of the Third Reich, Brassey's, 2004 also looks valid
Reference 3 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/axis-invasion-of-yugoslavia. Also looks valid
Reference 4 leads the reader here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090812223533/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=12&dd=16&nav_id=46226 which looks skeptical.
References 5 and 6 are both dead links.
Citations for above edits:
- ^ Giergiel, Sabina; Taczyńska, Katarzyna (2023). "Heritage Without Heirs: The German Legacy in Serbia. The Case of the Museum of Danube Swabians". Acta Poloniae Historica. 128: 127–150. doi:10.12775/APH.2023.128.06. ISSN 2450-8462.
- ^ "Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Frusetta, J. (2014-12-01). "Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century, Paul Mojzes (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), xiv + 297 pp., hardcover $42.95, electronic version available". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 28 (3): 535–537. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcu047. ISSN 8756-6583.
- ^ Antolović, Michael; Marković, Saša (2017-03-04). "Executioners and/or victims—German minority in Serbian, Croatian and German historiographies (1945–2010)". Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. 19 (2): 209–224. doi:10.1080/19448953.2015.1096135. ISSN 1944-8953.
- ^ Zakić, Mirna (2014-04). "The Price of Belonging to the Volk: Volksdeutsche, Land Redistribution and Aryanization in the Serbian Banat, 1941–4". Journal of Contemporary History. 49 (2): 320–340. doi:10.1177/0022009413515539. ISSN 0022-0094.
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