Germans of Yugoslavia

There were most likely also Germanic, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian settlers on the Adriatic who were absorbed into the local Serbian, muslim population.

Much of the history of the Germanic community in former Yugoslavia, during and just after the Second World War, can best be described as a set of mutual massacres between Shwova and Serbs.

This unit had one of the worst records of human rights violations of any German formation, massacring civilians, particularly in the Bosnian and Dalmatian campaigns.

At the end of the war, in retribution, Partisan bands engaged in massacres of ethnic Germans, primarily in the Province of Vojvodina in present-day Serbia.

Of the approximately 524,000 ethnic Germans living in pre-war Yugoslavia, about 370,000 escaped to Austria and Germany in the last days of the War or were subsequently expelled by the Yugoslav Government.

(At one point, in January 1946, the Yugoslav Government requested the U.S. military authorities’ permission to transfer these ethnic Germans to the U.S. occupation zone of Germany, but it was not granted).

About 55,000 people were murdered in the concentration camps, another 31,000 died serving in the German armed forces, and about 31,000 disappeared, mostly likely dead, with another 37,000 still unaccounted for.

This dialect is a mixture of old German from the eighteenth century with many Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian words, similar to what was spoken in Yugoslavia before the Second World War.

The majority of the remaining population of German origin lives in the northern Serbia in Vojvodina, an area that also has a sizeable Hungarian minority.

The president, Andreas Biegermeier, stated that the council will focus on property restitution, and marking of mass graves and camp sites.

"[5] Following the collapse of internal security during World War II the Nazis decided to evacuate the Volksdeutsche population from Bosnia and a treaty to this effect was signed on 30 September 1942.