Genocide of the Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948

Genocide of the Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948 by Documentation Project Committee. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9783926276476.

This book was published in Munich in 2003 by the Board of Directors of Donauschwabische Kulturstiftung – Stiftung des büergerlichen Rechts. Described as a “contribution to Danube Swabian Heritage and Home Country Research,” 2,500 copies were reportedly printed. Prior to World War II, there were a reported 540,000 Germans in Yugoslavia, of whom 95,000 were drafted into the German, Hungarian, or Croatian armies, and 245,000 of whom were evacuated to Germany. Of the remaining 200,000, the book purports to document that 64,000 were, in one way or another, “mortal victims” of premeditated genocide occurring between 1944 and 1948 under the direction of Tito. Many ethnic German civilians who had lived in the area for generations were tortured and slain by partisan fighters in raids of reprisal by Yugoslav forces. According to the authors, about 51,000 ethnic Germans were systematically killed in civilian death camps by starvation and intentionally controlled epidemics. The remainder were believed killed in less organized ways, mostly partisan raids.