Edited sentence: After the war, many of the Germans of Yugoslavia, who by this point were mostly women, children, or elderly, were held in inhuman conditions in camps made out of their former towns, such as the one at Knićanin, or they were killed outright.All its inhabitants were bilingual: German and Croatian speakers, andRoman Catholics.Especially after World War II, many Danube Swabians migrated to the United States, Brazil, Canada, Austria, Australia, and Argentina.From 1945-48, many Germans in Hungary were dispossessed and forced to "return" to Germany, although it was not their birthplace.Germans built with the years a "German speaking region", with limited interaction with Serbs.In 1945, Tito started to unify the region and expelled all non-slaves.In this massacres, thousands lost their lives.Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia reigned during this time in this region.Marshes were drained, roads and canalisation built, which still exist.Ruma was a German town, with German schools, sportclubs, culture.She colonized the region by inviting many Germans to resettle to these lands.The Soviet Red Army marched into the Danube Swabian-populated lands, Ruma included, beginning the exodus of Germans.The soil they got were wetlands, but with the years, these peasants turned it into a rich farmland.Thousands moved there in the search of ownership and freedom from tax payments and started what with the centuries became a huge and rich German colony, the so called "Donau Schwaben" and "Vojvodina Germans"