Portions of the History of the Volksdeutcher and Their Exodus from the Territory of Yugoslavia

Povijest podunavske njemačke narodne skupine u historiografiji nedovoljno je obrađena. To se posebice odnosi na razdoblje od 1941. do prvih poratnih godina, kada je samo s jugoslavenskih prostora ova najbrojnija i najbogatija polumilijunska nacionalna manjina gotovo u potpunosti nestala. Uzroke njezina nestanka svakako valja tražiti u općim konstelacijama rata, ali još više u odlukama što su ih dosljedno provodile naše ratne i poratne vlasti, koje su folksdojčerski status izjednačavale s nacističkim. Golema folksdojčerska bogatstva konfiscirana su i podijeljena kolonistima, od kojih su većina bili Srbi. Da bi sve to u ovome članku i dokumentirao, autor pored sažetog teksta podastire najrelevantniju izvornu i literarnu građu koja čitatelja izravno ili posredno uvlači u ondašnja zbivanja i upućuje na daljnja istraživanja.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\u27s 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