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"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
Translated by
Henry Fischer
The imprisonment of the Danube Swabians
in internment camps began in December of
1944 and was completed by April 1945.
There were three kinds of camps:
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Zentralarbeitslager “Central Labor
Camp”
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Ortslager “Regional or District
Camp”
-
Konzentrationslager fuer
Arbeitsunfaehige
“Concentration Camp For Those Unable
to Work”
In the Central Labor Camps most of the
inmates were men who were put into work
groups and put to hard labor. In the
District or Regional Camps, the local
Danube Swabian population was interned,
often in their own villages as a stopgap
method. The Concentration Camps were
for women, children and older men unable
to work. But in some cases, mothers
were separated from their children and
teen-agers were later taken to the Labor
Camps with them as well.
Next:
1.
The Forced
Labor Camps
[Published at www.dvhh.org,
Sept. 2006] |
