Syrmia Family Research
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Syrmia Volunteer Lookups,
see the Syrmia
Village Index
for Lookup Guides under the village name.
List of
Danube Swabians killed by Marshall Tito's Regime
The Disappearance of
Yugoslav Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche)
People-German Community - Danube Swabia
Homeland Association in Croatia
Ribarska 1, P.O. Box 110
HR 31000 Osijek
Tel./fax 00385 - 31 - 213610
Chairman: Nikola Mak
vham@inet.hr /
rtrisler@vip.hr
The
AVNOJ-Regulations and the Genocide of the Germans in
Yugoslavia between 1944-1948. About 30,000 people belonged
to the Deutsch-Untersteirer (in the Banat, in the
Batschka & in Syrmia more than 7000 civilians had been murdered:
www.8ung.at/untersteirer/html/body_englisch.html
Introduction to
the Armed Formations of the German National Group (Volksgruppe) in the
Independent State of Croatia (Einsatzstaffel der Deutsche
Mannschaft (ES d. DM)) by H.L. deZeng IV
Part-time civilian local defense units, initially
called Ortsschutz and then from 1943 Deutsche Heimatwacht (German Home
Guard), were established in many of the individual Volksdeutsch communities
in Slavonia and Syrmia as the danger of partisan attack intensified from the
end of 1941. Rather than being considered formal units, these local defense
formations were designated by the name of their town or village.
The German ethnic group in Croatia and Bosnia had a
1941 population of 150,000 to 200,000, depending on the source consulted.
The first steps to establish armed formations within the group were taken on
21 June 1941 with the creation of the Deutsche Mannschaft (DM) from
qualified men between 18 and 45 years of age, as a para-military party
organization set up for self-defense purposes and somewhat similar to the
Allgemeine-SS in Germany.
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=7276
Croatia
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