"Genocide Carried out by the Tito Partisans"
Österreichische Historiker-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Kärnten und Steiermark (Austrian Historian Working Group for Kärnten and Steiermark) Chapter one

Internment: 3: The Closing of the Camps

Translated by Henry Fischer

     In the summer of 1948 all of the camps in Yugoslavia were shut down.  Those able to work had to take on jobs.  Those unable to work could rejoin their families and find work there in order to support themselves.  Others who were unable to find somewhere to live were sent to what was called, “The Old Folks’ Home” in Karlsdorf-Rankovice.  This was hardly any different than the camps they had survived.  Since 1948 Karlsdorf bears the name of Rankoviecvo in honor of the head of the OZNA who was personally responsible for the carrying out of the liquidation of the Danube Swabians from the fall of 1944.  Karlsdorf is the last station of the cross of the Danube Swabian minority in Yugoslavia of what was planned to be the total extermination of all persons of German origin in the country …genocide.

[Published at www.dvhh.org, Sept. 2006]