In the Claws of the Red Dragon: Ten Years Under Tito's HeelPersonal narrative of a Catholic priest from the Voivodina region regarding the sufferings of the ethnic Danube Swabian Germans under the Tito partisan government in Yugoslavia during the decade after World War II. |
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Page 68
... Bezdan post . Understand ? Please pray to the guardian angel ? ' " We always do . Goodbye ! " they both called back as they were leaving . At the appointed time Theresa and Kathy were ready to travel . They waited for my sister and the ...
... Bezdan post . Understand ? Please pray to the guardian angel ? ' " We always do . Goodbye ! " they both called back as they were leaving . At the appointed time Theresa and Kathy were ready to travel . They waited for my sister and the ...
Page 83
... Bezdan road . But , they already knew about that . " That's where the good partisan is stationed , ' they chorused . I rode back to Gakowa a very disappointed man . I brought nothing with me not even a piece of bread , or a drop of milk ...
... Bezdan road . But , they already knew about that . " That's where the good partisan is stationed , ' they chorused . I rode back to Gakowa a very disappointed man . I brought nothing with me not even a piece of bread , or a drop of milk ...
Page 93
... Bezdan Forest ... and ... and had come back to bring us some Easter presents . He was caught trying to leave camp . They shot him in the back and threw his blood - covered body into a common grave without letting us see him again ...
... Bezdan Forest ... and ... and had come back to bring us some Easter presents . He was caught trying to leave camp . They shot him in the back and threw his blood - covered body into a common grave without letting us see him again ...
Contents
Prologue Josef Haltmayer | 10 |
Overthrow in Zagreb | 25 |
The Perilous Homeward Journey | 31 |
Copyright | |
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