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Valentin Oberkersch

  Danube Swabians in Syrmien, Croatia, Slavonia & Bosnia
(Die Deutschen in Syrmien, Slavonien, Kroatien und Bosnien)

By: Dr. Valentin Oberkersch

Translated with his family’s permission 2006 by Henry A. Fischer

(Translator’s note: The following is a translation and summarization of key sections of Dr. Oberkersch’s book that would be of interest to English speaking Danube Swabians whose families came from Syrem, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia as well as those with a general interest in the history and ultimate destiny of the Danube Swabian people in the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia.)

     

Introduction: The Historical Development of the Region Up Until 1918

The Settlement of the Germans 

Croatia and the Colonization Question

The German Population and the Revolution of 1848

The Removal of the German Language from Government and School

 


     

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