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 70
... knapsack ? Open it ! " My eyes went blurry . What if he found the hundred or so letters the prisoners had given me to mail in the city ? I set the heavy knaspsack down at his feet and slowly began to open it . His eyes accompanied every ...
... knapsack ? Open it ! " My eyes went blurry . What if he found the hundred or so letters the prisoners had given me to mail in the city ? I set the heavy knaspsack down at his feet and slowly began to open it . His eyes accompanied every ...
Page 85
... knapsack . " Look into my knapsack ? What will Commandant Schutzo say about that ? " I asked boldly . Mention of the commandant's name calmed the sentry like magic . He gave me a respectful look and let me pass and I admired my audacity ...
... knapsack . " Look into my knapsack ? What will Commandant Schutzo say about that ? " I asked boldly . Mention of the commandant's name calmed the sentry like magic . He gave me a respectful look and let me pass and I admired my audacity ...
Page 120
... knapsack . Since you are a priest and have a knapsack she thought you had brought her little sister with you ? ' I got a ride in the cab of a truck which took me over the bumpy road from Werbass to Sombor , the county seat . An officer ...
... knapsack . Since you are a priest and have a knapsack she thought you had brought her little sister with you ? ' I got a ride in the cab of a truck which took me over the bumpy road from Werbass to Sombor , the county seat . An officer ...
Contents
Prologue Josef Haltmayer | 10 |
Overthrow in Zagreb | 25 |
The Perilous Homeward Journey | 31 |
Copyright | |
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answered Apatin arrived asked Bajmok Banat Batschka Belgrade Bezdan bread brickyard called Catholic cell Chetniks child Christ Christian Christmas church cold commandant Communist Comrade Croatian cross Danube Swabians death door Dubrovnik escape ethnic Germans everything extermination camps eyes face fate Father Gruber Filipowa floor Gakowa girl graves guard hands head Holy homeland Hungarian Hungary hunger inmates innocent internees jail Johler knapsack knew labour lives looked Lord Mary mass Mitrovitza morning mother murder neighbour Neusatz night partisans police prayed prayer priest prisoners religious rosary Rudolfsgnad Sarajevo Schutzo seemed Serbian Serbs silent sister Sombor soon soul spiritual starvation stood suddenly suffered Syrmia taken Theiss River thought Tito Tito's told took tried turned UDBA voice Voivodina wagon walked wedge cap wheelbarrow woman women words yelled young Yugoslavia Zagreb