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- Title
DEPORTAREA CETĂŢENILOR ROMÂNI DE ETNIE GERMANĂ DIN BANAT ÎN UNIUNEA SOVIETICĂ.
- Authors
Bălţoi, Viorel
- Abstract
The situation of the German minority in the Banat, as in the rest of the country, gradually worsened after the act of August 23, 1944. The range 12 to 19 January 1945 was most dramatic for most of the Banat Swabians. They were accused by Moscow of collaboration with the German army, the main reason they were deported to the USSR. A small number of Swabians, with the complicity of local authorities, managed to disappear in time from their localities, but a large number of them had to endure deportation. In most localities in the Banat, the operations Germans arresting were executed during the night. These actions were made by Romanian-Soviet joint patrols and in most cases they did not meet the situation of persons excepted from deportation. During the arrests there were mentioned specifically those Germans enrolled in the SS. Those who were not deported for some reason (age, religion) were enrolled in labor battalions in the country. Testimonies of survivors are downright disturbing. Pleadings filed by relatives of those deported by the authorities did not change at all the situation of the Germans who were sent to work in the USSR. Most of those people of German nationality who had been deported to the USSR remained there until 1948-1949, when they were repatriated. Smaller groups of Germans who hadn't been able to work due to difficult life conditions were repatriated earlier, starting with autumn 1945 when the first groups came back in Romania. As for the number of deportees in the USSR, the figures vary depending on the institutions and the data they have, ranging from approximately 70,000 to 75,000 throughout Romania. The important thing is that, in 1948-1949, the labor camps were closed, and the deported Germans returned in the country totally, including the 11,000 Swabians from the Banat.
- Subjects
BANAT; GERMANY; ROMANIA; MINORITIES; GERMANS; HISTORY of deportation; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Banatica, 2012, Issue 22, p341
- ISSN
1222-0612
- Publication type
Article