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Persecution of Germans in Yugoslavia
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Persecution of Germans in Yugoslavia | |
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Part of the Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944-1950) | |
Location | Yugoslavia |
Date | 1944-1948 |
Target | German civilians in Yugoslavia |
Attack type | Mass murder, ethnic cleansing, forced labor, persecution, discrimination |
Deaths | c. 58,000-135,000[1][2][3][4] |
Victims | c. 167,000 interned in concentration camps[5] c. 245,000 deported or fled[6] |
Perpetrators | Yugoslav authorities under Tito Yugoslav Partisans |
Motive | Anti-German sentiment Revenge for Nazi atrocities |
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Before World War II, approximately 500,000 ethnic Germans lived in Yugoslavia.[7]
Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, German civilians in Yugoslavia were dubbed “enemies of the people” by Tito, and subsequently suffered persecution, forced labour, internment in concentration camps, and massacre at the hands of Yugoslav authorities and the Yugoslav Partisans.[8][9][10][11]
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Around 7,200 German civilians were massacred outright by the Yugoslav Partisans towards the end of the war.[9][8]
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Meanwhile, estimates suggest that from 1944-1948, around 167,000 Germans were interned in Yugoslav concentration/labour camps, while another 245,000 were deported or fled. In March 1945, Tito initiated a second phase in which ethnic Germans were packed into villages such as Gakowa and Kruševlje that were in turn converted into labour camps. All furniture was removed, straw placed on the floor, and the expellees housed like animals under military guard, with minimal food and rampant, untreated disease. Families were divided into the unfit; I.e. women, old, and children, and those fit, for slave labour. In total, roughly 50,000-128,000 perished in concentration camps and from various other methods of persecution. Around 2,000 Germans died in Soviet labor camps following their deportation by Yugoslav authorities.[8][9][10][11][12]
According to figures covering the period of late 1944, the Soviets transported 27,000 to 30,000 ethnic Germans, a majority of whom were women aged 18 to 35, to Ukraine and the Donbas for forced labour, with about 20% (5,683) were reported dead or missing.[13][8][9] Data from Russian archives from 2001 put the number of German civilians deported from Yugoslavia to the USSR in early 1945 for reparation labour at 12,579, with around 2,000 dying.[14]
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By 1950, it is estimated that only 82,000 ethnic Germans remained in Yugoslavia out of a prewar population of over 500,000.[15] Many also were able to immigrate to the United States, thanks to the Displaced Persons Act of 1948.[7]
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