{"product_id":"the-whip-my-homecoming","title":"The Whip My Homecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Whip My Homecoming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Traudie Müller-Wlossak is the story of one woman’s struggle in the aftermath of the Second World War in ‘Yugoslavia’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen you read the book, you understand Traudie Müller's determination to tell her story. “I had to tell the other side\" she says emphatically “Everbody knows what the Germans did during the war, and will never be allowed to forget it. Nobody knows what atrocities were committed by the communists to the Germans after the war.\" Aus “The Australian\", Sydney, 8. II. 1982.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore the arrival of the Red Army, Traudie had already fled to Germany with her two young children. When hostilities finally ceased, she seized the first opportunity to return home. Instead, she was diverted into a concentration camp and forcibly separated from her children. What followed was\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a nightmare of starvation, freezing cold, disease, and brutality. Eventually she escaped and made her way to Austria, where she was reunited with her husband.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e After some time the family moved to Australia, a new \u003cem\u003eHeimat\u003c\/em\u003e, homeland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This is a very personal story, and I want nothing more than to share\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e it as far as possible. NEVER FORGET, AVCIT LOVES YOU” - Avcit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(as these books were printed in 1986 and have sat in storage since, some copies may have minor cosmetic stains\/yellowing. However, all copies are in VERY good, and most importantly, READABLE condition)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn excerpt from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/www.swabiantrek.com\/the-lost-danube-swabian-children-of-yugoslavia \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI encourage you to read the full piece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThere was only one alternative:   the 200,000 Danube Swabians who had remained must be liquidated.  For that purpose Belgrade set up the process and plan for the “final solution” to the Danube Swabian problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  The decrees and laws of the national anti-fascist assembly on November 21, 1944 had three points directed against the Danube Swabian civilian populaton.  (1)  All persons living in Yugoslavia of German origin were stripped of their citizenship and all rights of a person before the law automatically on the basis of their race.  (2)  All goods and property of the Danube Swabians were confiscated by the State.  (3)  They had no rights under the law to protect the above matters in the courts.  The Danube Swabian population were declared to be outlaws…outside the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  They were placed into the hands of the military administration of the Partisans wherever they happened to live.  Plundering, murder, rape, torture, beatings and mass shootings took place throughout the Banat.  Local Serbs followed the lead of the Partisans.  The Danube Swabians regardless of age, gender or status were guilty of the crime of being German.  A systematic plan of liquidation was set into motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  Moscow was only too glad to assist Yugoslavia in carrying out the extermination.  Tito would have the gratitude of the Soviets and would get rid of the younger Danube Swabians.  Although the Partisans had little to do with the actual “liberation” they sought to control the Banat and for this privilege they were willing to pay but not with money that they did not have but with able bodied workers to rebuild the wrecked Soviet economy.  The question was:  Where could they find the necessary workers?  Just about any Danube Swabian village or enclave would do.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Average Citizen","offers":[{"title":"English-Soft cover","offer_id":67848666448238,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"German-Hard cover","offer_id":67848666481006,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/1920\/6254\/files\/B4A6DAB1-58BC-48AC-A19C-E03C774E40DA.jpg?v=1792719177","url":"https:\/\/avcit.shop\/products\/the-whip-my-homecoming","provider":"Average Citizen","version":"1.0","type":"link"}