The Serbians hid the mass graves purposely. They took over the homes and farms of my family and the others they shot and sent to camps to die. We finally received recognition for their war crimes due to the unwavering stance of my grandmother and others to not let our families be forgotten..

They collaborated with the Nazis.

@@patriciabrenner9216 can you elaborate on that statement? I’m looking into my own family history and want to understand the connections between the main concentration of Germans (today’s Germany and Austria) and the various enclaves of ethnic Germans that exist/ed in Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Poland, Italy, etc.

@@TheMickey1892 they populated danube area mostly in 18 century, sent there by austrian government to develope agriculture, because it used to be austro-hungarian kingdom teritory. In ww2 hitler attacked region and promised danube swabians he will spare them, but they had to join military forces I believe. When Yugoslavian partisans declared victory, you can only imagine how keen off they were of nazi collaborators

@Branka Petrov. This is not accurate. They were sold by Hitler to the Soviet Union. They were promised things not because they supported the Nazis but because Stalin wanted slave labor and Hitler sold them to him. Your comments are not accurate. I have the stories of the survivors and what happened to their families. They did not support the Nazi party. And just so you are aware there was only one party when Hitler took power - there was no option to be an opposing view. Stop spreading your misinformation here and making them out to be supporters of Hitler. Stalin was brutal - as brutal as Hitler - and he played two sides. The allies and Hitler - the allies thought russia was an Allie while Hitler thought he had secret deals secured with Stalin - all so Stalin could seize power over Eastern Europe. The people of Yugoslavia were pawns and had little to do with the actions of the Nazi party. Any of them who were involved in that literally had no choice but to be killed - which many of them were. Go troll elsewhere

What a coincidence, I’m also 20 and my father’s father’s mother was a Donauschwab and married a local there. Unfortunately the only family member left to tell the story is my father’s mother. She said Donauschwabs have really strong legs, and I actually do have really thick quads lol. Do you? My great grandparents lived in Virovitica. My grandfather fled to Germany to avoid army service and never went back.

@@Nick-kq8pg it's funny that you say that because I have really strong legs as well. It must be a Donauschwaben thing hahaha.

That's so cool, my family is also Donauschwaben and they were from Zrenjanin and Kikinda, not so far from Schuschara.

@@williamschnitzel6642 My grandfather was also born in Kikinda. I am working to try and trace his history (and also my grandmother's history).

@@thejusticetreefamilyherita3826 That's so cool, what was his family name? Mine is Lengenfelder but also I have relatives with Scharfschnitzel

That’s nicer 🥰🥰😍😍

Hello beautiful, how are you doing??

😥 I am so sorry for your loss.

Love your story. Thank you for sharing your history. I'm Serbian. My grandmothers sister is married to a Donauschwab. Uncle Karlo as we call him came after the war in the seventies to visit his former home. There he met my grandmother and her sister. I know from him that these war memories never leave you. It remains a painful wound.

Interesting.. There is still an old remaining German church in that area of Vojvodina, although it's in city called ''Vrsac''. I find it interesting that Partisans did not destroy it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLVzg5yh1NrRfWQ.html

A love story - a survival story - a story if happened any other way, I wouldn't be here to tell it. I'm inspired by life and am thankful for the opportunity to have lived in peace. You're welcome and thanks for reading. It's nice to be able to recall and share some of my Father's stories about our family and their experiences. To anyone reading this, please know that I hold no animosity toward anyone, especially during war time. Humans are capable of carrying out unspeakable acts of horror, but also bravery, heroism and compassionate acts of love. That was a great video. It reminds me a lot of Vrbas. I will finish watching it a bit later. I am currently in Batumi, Georgia and must pay import taxes at the airport now! 🤣

lotta hard feelings postwar, lot easier to deny

They could have tried, idk, not collaborating with nazis 🤷‍♀️

That’s not the truth. You lack the knowledge of the Russian/Nazi agreements that allowed this violence to occur on innocent people. They were not Nazi supporters. They were Germans but they were not Nazis. There are deals being made with Stalin that Russia would get certain countries to control / it was Stalin who played two sides here - pretending to be the the Allies of the US and European nations while making back door deals with Hitler. The donauschaben were not Nazi supporters. They were Yugoslavian people. You can keep your nastiness to yourself. This was not a purge of Nazi people. It was a murderous violent purge of Germans who had lived there forever centuries working and being part of the community. The only thing they did wrong was not seeing what was planned for them. They did nothing to deserve the actions of Tito and the communists from Russia. Don’t put your nasty spin on what happened to my family - you were not them

@@lauraschnur8074 one thing I do not lack knowledge of is Yugoslavia 45-91. First principle was unity of nations and religions under one roof. They went agains an enemy based on their ideology, not nationality. Personally, I do not trust germans to this day for those reasons.

@@lauraschnur8074 and ofcourse you will defend your family. Your feelings do not make them better.

I could imagine how it was there Serbs was killing even in Jugoslav was when tv and cameras was there can you imagine what they was doing in thar time when was no cameras at all

@@zigfriedkurcic6052 Can you imagine what the Serbs suffered during Nazi and Croat Ustasa occupation? I guess not.

@@gideonros2705this is not a competition. Everything that happened was terrible. Lets not put one pain over another. But this video is about people whos entire existence is almost completly forgotten and erased

​​@@emmq5157Is not the same to be a victim of being Serbs under German occupation and of the Ustaše (Italians, Hungarians, Albanian Ballistas, Handzar Division, SS Prince Eugen, Verhmart) and being a German both in the name of Nazism and your beloved Hitler whom you looked up to and loved as God and in the name of Nazism and Hitler to commit crimes against Serb civilians. Stop pretending that you don't know it, and you know it and you never deal with the crimes of your forces against the civilian population of Serbia. Get your historiography with this information, you have documents about it in Washington and in Berlin.

bartsimpson 67543 Genocide was that the German forces in Yugoslavia/Serbia committed crimes against the innocent Serbian local population with the help of the local German population (public hangings, raids, killing in the sense of liquidation by firing squad). Enrich your historiography with these pictures, documents, videos. You have everything documented in the Archives in both Berlin and Washington.

Hello 👋 I must confess you’re so beautiful 😻

Hope you’re doing good today??

My grandparents, great-grandparents and father all were in Gakowa where my great-grandparents died of starvation. My father was a young child and had PTSD the rest of his life.

In this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLVzg5yh1NrRfWQ.html you can see old Danube Swabian city and old German church. To this day people in Serbia often refer to all Germans as ''Svabe/Swabe''

This might be a late reply, but I know there is a Serbian comission which has published most of its records for those who died in the Concentration camps or were executed. The downside of this page is that it is in Serbian. But I know a way to make a lookup. otvorenaknjiga.komisija1944.mpravde.gov.rs/

Hello Ana 🙋‍♀️- I'm am from Germany; my father is origin a Donauschwabe and here we have many and different types of Institutes and museums; where you can find many; many informations you need. If you need a helping hand; so let me know. It's so important to know our roots. Alles Liebe zu Dir 🙋‍♀️

My Grandmother is from Rudolfsgnad (now Knicanin) they left in fall 1944.

Hello 👋 How are you doing??

You should aknowledge your ancestors were nazi collaborators.

@@munimunus6141 nein, Du liegst falsch. Es gab Donauschwaben ; die Hitler- willig waren. Aus sehr verschiedenen Gründen; Keine Frage. Doch: der Großteil lebte in abgelegen Dörfern; wollte mit Krieg und Kampf nichts zu haben. Floh zum Teil deshalb nicht vor den großen Gefahren; weil die Meinung vorherrschte: " Wir haben nichts und niemand etwas getan; sehr bewusst keiner Partei/ Führer/Gegner oder dergleichen zugejubelt und zugearbeitet. Uns wird man also nichts tun; wir waren neutral; haben einfach gearbeitet und versucht; unsere Familien durchzubringen. Trotz der Beschlagnahme von Getreide/ Tieren/ manchen Häusern von den verschiedenen Kriegsparteien waren wir: neutral. Sie werden uns nichts tun. Weder die Einen, noch die Anderen. Wir waren neutral". Welcher fatale; tödliche; so viel Leid bringende Irrtum. Und bis heute sehen wir- hier durch Deine Behauptung- solch' schlimme Unwahrheiten; unbelegbare Behauptungen und Versuche; über die Sprache und via Geschichtsklitterung; > weiterhin < Vernichtung zu üben. How dare you? ! Tradierter Hass ohne Ende. Es war und ist >genug< Vernichtung und es ist gut und wichtig; dass die neuere Geschichtsschreibung zum Thema Hitler/ Stalin und Tito in Deutschland; Serbien; Kroatien jetzt differenzierter hinsieht. Aber es ist ein schweres Ringen; insb. in Serbien,& Kroatien; für die Tito- Anhänger insbesonders. Aber wir müssen hinsehen. Wir sind es allen zukünftigen Generationen schuldig; bei allem : genau hinzusehen. Eigene Schuld zu bekennen- und Projektionen - zum Zwecke des Schwarz/ Weiß... zu benennen. Was Hitler tat- ist niemals! entschuldbar. Was Stalin und Tito taten; auch nicht. Bastarde waren sie alle; denn sie hatten alle das Ziel; die ihrer Ansicht nach " jeweils Falschen". " zu vernichten. Ja, zu vernichten. Die gesamte Forschung der Historiker über die letzten 20 Jahre belegt; dass das Narrativ : "Kollektivschuld für Donauschwaben" definitiv nicht haltbar ist. Bitte erkundige Dich zum Beispiel in Deutschland; in der Stadt Tübingen "Donauschwäbisches Institut" ; dort bekommst Du auch im Englisch genaueste Auskünfte der Historiker. Dasselbe in Belgrad usw. So viele Menschen; Generationen nun; haben so teuer mit ihrem Leben und auch nicht selten mit ihrer Lebenskraft / Lebensglück teuer bezahlt. ( Transgenerationale Traumata) . Wir als Kinder und Enkel von Überlebenden; von Menschen; die Ihre Ehepartner; ihre Kinder; Mama, Papa, Oma, Opa, Familienmitglieder; Spielkameraden; die Heimat und so viel mehr verloren haben.... bitten Dich; keine Geschichtsklitterung zum Zwecke Deiner Selbstdarstellung; des Säens von neuem Hass und Zwietracht zu betreiben. Es war und ist genug Verlust. Das gilt es anzuerkennen und auch zu bewahren. 📌⚰⛓⚖ "Die Vernichtung von uns Donauschwaben durch alle Kräfte den Krieges hat dann ausgespielt; wenn wir heute unsere Kinder und Kindeskinder glücklich in ihren Großfamilie sehen. Satt; unbeschwert spielend; mit Bildung gesegnet; groß werden sehen. Und wir unser Erbe somit tragen; bewahren und weitertragen. Unauslöschlich. " 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🤸‍♀️🙆‍♂️🚴‍♀️ 📌 ( Dies schrieb' mir ein Donauschwabe vor einigen Jahren; 92 - jährig im einem persönlichem Briefwechsel im Rahmen meiner Ahnenforschung). ....------....

@@munimunus6141were yours Tito’s ‘Partisans’? Killing of innocent people cannot be hidden from God.

We don’t have unlimited amount of $ behind us to make films like Spielberg. What has the German State done to document its own history?

duroshebanja6810-Partisans saved 2,000 American soldiers during the war, so what did that not determine the further course of the war. If it were not for Tito, NOB, KPJ and Partisan, he would have been Germanized and would not even exist as a Serb. Draža Mihailović was an associate of the fascist Germans, Italians, Nedićevs, Ljotićevs, Ustaša (he had an agreement with all fascist forces on the territory of Yugoslavia on non-aggression and assistance with weapons). At the same time, he ordered the murders of Serbs in Vranić, Čačak, Ćuprija, Boleč, Drugovec, Trstenik, Rajinac, Stragari, Sevojno, Dokmiru, Valjevo, Ljig, Gornji Milanovac, Kukljin... And that's why he was convicted as a war criminal and as an accomplice of the occupiers in the people's court, and his trial was public, and it couldn't be more public. The whole world watched it through radio operators. President Truman gave the order to Draža Mahailović because he thought he could use the old Chetniks in the fight against the communists during the Cold War. That's why they were admitted to America after the war, to be there because someday they would be needed by the American administration in the fight against communism during the Cold War.

@@steveinroblox Communist Propaganda.

So many were executed, of could they were forced to leave.

don't whitewash this genocide...because that is exactly what this was.

@@liamtw679 where are you from

It was genocide, plain and simple.

wha are you lying ? spreading propagenda. My family lost everything and was forced to flee and almost starve to death