Original sentence: During World War II, the German minority in occupied Yugoslavia enjoyed a status of superiority over the Yugoslav population.The Volksdeutsche (as they were called) were under heavy Nazi influence and served as the fifth column during the invasion of Yugoslavia.With rare exceptions, the Yugoslav Volksdeutsche collaborated wholeheartedly with the occupation, supplying more than 60,000 troops for German military formations, and actively participating in the brutal repression of the Yugoslav populace
Edited sentence: During World War II, the ethnic German population was perceived as enjoying a status of superiority over the ethnic Slavs.However, a draft which was instituted by Germany resulted in 60,000 troops for German military formations.Most died as a result of exhaustion as slave laborers, in "ethnic cleansing," or from disease and malnutrition.Numerous concentration or liquidation camps were set up under Tito's proclamations, resulting in the deaths not only of perceived enemies of Yugoslavia, but of women and children.Some 63,635 Yugoslav ethnic German civilians (women, men and children) perished under Communist rule between 1945 and 1950 -- that is, some 18 percent of the ethnic German civilian population still remaining in the new Yugoslavia.The Donauschwaben (as they were called) were allegedly under Nazi influence and served as the fifth column during the invasion of Yugoslavia.The Donauschwaben were viewed as being collaborators with the occupation.The United Nations has referred to this camps as both ethnic cleansing and genocide