The germans from the south of Banat, from the privileged to the pariah of society (1944-1948)
The germans from the south of Banat, from the privileged to the pariah of society (1944-1948)

Summary/Abstract: Supporters of the Great Union, the Banat Swabians would be increasingly influenced by the National Socialist movement led by Fritz Fabritius, starting in the 1930s. Their integration, for the most part, into the German Ethnic Group, their recruitment – en masse – for the Todt organization and for the SS troops, as well as the adoption of the slogan regarding the establishment of DONAULAND, launched by the Third Reich, to which were added a series of other factors (the loss of the war by Nazi Germany, the fulfillment of the provisions of the Armistice Convention by the Romanian government, the Soviet military occupation, etc.) determined multiple punitive measures against the Banat Swabians: the arrest and conviction of prominent members of the G.E.G., the dismissal of all local administration officials, the requisition of real estate, of "enemy" industrial and commercial companies (especially German ones), internment in forced labor camps throughout Romania, deportation to the Soviet Union.

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