The turbulent period immediately following the war was — as indicated in the previous chapter — a time of chaos, uncertainty and trial for the Swabians. This period may be divided into three phases. The first one consisted of deportations to the Soviet Union by the Red Army, at once the...
Of these, 243,234 were Germans, increasing the total number of Hungary's German populations to 720,291, that is to 4.9 percent. 2 Through these successive gains Hungary became the host country of the largest German minority in Europe, a distinction which had only too many inauspicious ...
While appeals to belonging within a broader German nation were popularized, the symbols developed to convey this affiliation showed particular local and regional understandings of Banat Swabian Germanness—a trend that only began to change in the 1930s, as these symbols were appropriated by new ...
This article addresses the origin, morphology and significance of planned villages associated with the Habsburg colonization of the Romanian Banat, a region in east-central Europe comprising parts of present day Serbia, Romania and Hungary, in the eighteenth century. In an effort to repopulate and ...
One reason for this is that the overwhelming majority of the Swabians lived in territories which had been detached from Hungary and annexed to Rumania and Yugoslavia only at the end of World War I. Thus, a considerable proportion of the history of the Swabians in Rumania (and in Yugoslavia)...