Talk:Banat (1941–1944)

message: As I mentioned it on the Nedic's Serbia talk page, the occupied Serbia is not recogised by the international law nor by historians as a puppet state. It was just an occupied territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia completely (military and economically) controlled by Germans. Also, Banat was a part of that occupied territory and Serbian dinar was a valid currency in Banat, Nedic's gendarmerie and police was present in Banat, too. I see that the two very respectable references Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews, 3 vols, Holmes & Meyer, New York 1985, Volume 2, and the Guttman's Encyclopedia of the Holocaust are not separating Banat from the occupied territory whose military and civil rule was subordinated to the supreme German command and rule in Belgrade. All the article is full of forgeries and unsupported claims about that time occupied Serbia. Also, the very article name is nonsense. The Nedic's regime did not have full control over the occupied territory - it was rather a puppet regime executing commands of the occupiers and respecting fully the occupier's wishes.
So, my proposal is - to completely delete this article and, if anything should be useful to be mentioned at all, shall go into an article whose name shall be Serbia 1941-1944--Guivon 18:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are wrong - Nedić's Serbia was not "completely controlled by Germans" because it had its own government and security forces. In Banat, local Germans were in power and controled the territory and the fact that references that you mentioned "are not separating Banat from the occupied territory whose military and civil rule was subordinated to the supreme German command and rule in Belgrade" does not contradict to what I said that Banat was an autonomus 
territory within Nedić's Serbia. Also, what exactly here you claim to be "forgeries and unsupported claims"? And there is no single reason for this article to be deleted because there are numerous sources that confirm that this is valid encyclopaedic subject. See this map: http://www.terra.es/personal7/jqvaraderey/194145fc.gif - if you are right then why this map show what it show? PANONIAN 20:43, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Also see this: http://homepage20.seed.net.tw/web@3/flags/wfh/pg-eu-4.htm If there was no any difference between serbia and Banat, why this source say this: "1941 Serbia and Banat occupied by Germany to 1944."? PANONIAN 21:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: See also this: http://www.srpska-mreza.com/History/ww2/collapse.html Quote: "The eastern half of Vojvodina (Banat) had a separate German military administration, in which members of the local German minority played the chief part." And the source for that is: Encyclopedia Britannica, edition 1971, Volume 23, pages 921,922 entry: Yugoslavia, 6. WWII. PANONIAN 21:14, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: See this too: http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticpages/257.html Quote: "Following their invasion  of Yugoslavia, the Germans divided the country into several regions. They placed Serbia and Banat under their direct control and initiated actions against the Jewish population." PANONIAN 21:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: See this: http://www.barnesreview.org/Jan_2003/Ethnic_Germans/ethnic_germans.html Quote: "The Balkan campaign of 1941 against Yugoslavia resulted in a confused new split-up of Yugoslavia. There were diplomatic struggles for the Banat between Horthy’s Hungary and Antonescu’s Romania. There was the danger that these two countries would go to war against each other to gain the fertile plain east of the Theiss River. In order to prevent such a war, the German government decided to place the Yugoslavian part of the Banat under military administration. The Germans in the Banat were highly satisfied to come under German administration after all." PANONIAN 21:22, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: See this: http://www.rastko.org.yu/filmtv/msavkovic-1941-1945.html Quote: "Banat was occupied by Germany – the civil government was organized by the members of the German national minority (Folksdeutschers)" PANONIAN 21:24, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

text: One more: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Yugoslavia.html Quote: "Banat nominally under Serbian government but under German administration". PANONIAN 00:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References and accuracy 

message: ::20.000 serbs were killed in Jabuka? Are you serious?--Speidelj (talk) 22:41, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That is proven historical fact - 20.000 serbs and jews was killed there (even if you want to hide this fact - I just do not understand because of what reason you doing that). 212.69.0.46 (talk) 09:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Now here is source for history of Jabuka: http://www.sopancevo.org.yu/30-1-l This is official web site of Pančevo municipal authorities and thus, this source is reliable. Among other things, it claims that more than 10,000 Serbs, Jews and Roma was killed here during the war ("Od 1941. do 1944. godine na mestu Stratište po naredbi šefa policije Pančeva ubijeno je više od deset hiljada Srba, Roma i Jevreja"). 212.69.0.46 (talk) 14:51, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

text: If you read the whole sentence, you would read that people killed in Jabuka "mostly were brought from Sajmište concentration camp near Belgrade", which mean that they mostly were not inhabitants of Banat, but inhabitants of Syrmia, Belgrade, etc, who were brought to Jabuka in Banat and killed there. Number of 7,513 people in book written by Ćurčić refer only to native inhabitants of Banat who were killed during the war. 81.18.58.162 (talk) 01:20, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jabuka

message: “As soon as the Saurer gas van completed its deadly mission and returned to Berlin, Serbia was declared judenrein." Serbia was in fact only the second Nazi-occupied territory in Europe (Estonia being the first) to be formally declared 'cleaned of Jews' and the first outside Soviet lands to witness systematic mass murder of the Jews. On 29th May 1942, German Foreign office representative in Serbia Franz Rademacher proudly declared that 'the Jewish question is no longer an issue in Serbia”
See:   So you should remove your  source  . If Serbia was “judenrein” in Mai 1942, they could not have been killed on 1.Sep. 1942. :I have glanced over the pages of “Jevrejski logor na Beogradskom Sajmištu “, but  I could not find any reference to Stratište. 
And don´t dare call me a denier of Holocaust, just because I don´t trust in your sources!--Speidelj (talk) 20:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Two points: 1. the fact that Serbia was proclaimed “judenrein” does not mean that all Jews were killed. There were Jews who were hiding and if Germans found them they were killed after “judenrein proclamation”, and 2. Not all Jews who were killed in Stratište are from Serbia: According to this source some of the Jews who were killed in Stratište are brought even from Hungary. Stratište was a place where Jews from entire region (not only from “judenrein proclaimed Serbia”) were "exterminated" by Nazis. PANONIAN 20:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Stratište

message: I reverted the following change:
Consequenly over 21,500 ethnic Germans from Serbia were conscripted into the Waffen SS under dubious legal pretext, coercion and threat of punishment.George H. Stein, The Waffen-SS, Hitler's Elite Guard at War 1939-1945, (Cornell University, 1966), page.171. George H. Stein, The Waffen-SS, Hitler's Elite Guard at War 1939-1945, (Cornell University, 1966), page.172.
The staff of the Prinz Eugen Division  was based in the city of Pančevo in Banat. The division was formed between April and October, 1942 and was commanded by the Romanian Volksdeutsche SS Gruppenfuehrer and General-lieutenant of the Waffen SS, Artur Phleps. By December 31, 1941, the division was made up of 21,102 men. The Prinz Eugen SS Division was deployed throughout the former Yugoslavia to put down the Yugoslav Partisans, but was largely unsuccessful. During the campaigns it was alleged that it was infamous for reprisals and atrocities against innocent Yugoslav civilians of all faiths but particularly Serbs and partisans --counterclaims have been made that these crimes were in fact fighting between differing Yugoslav ethnic, religious, political and idealogical factions. The division was formally accused of committing atrocities against civilians and POWs and wounded (as per Hitler's directive) Wolff, Stefan. "German minorities in Europe", Berghahn Books, 2000 during the World War II at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials some of it's alleged actions were in explained by the SS Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser (second in command of the SS) who stated in explanation that the division was composed primarily of Yugoslav Germans, many trained (under conscription) in the pre-war royal Yugoslav army.  Stein, George H.; The Waffen SS: Hitler's elite guard at war, 1939-1945; Cornell University Press, 1984; p. 274; 
Despite apparent sourcing, this is a relativization, softening and finding excuses for the crimes (in other words, Historical revisionism) made by the division. For the start, the online source (3) states that "The Seventh SS Division Prince Eugen which committed unimaginable atrocities during the Schwartz and Weiss operations in 1943, had been recruited predominantly from the Banat Germans" (bold mine). Not "allegedly", "forcibly", or "under pressure". I would like to see the actual quotes from Stein which support the wording of mere "allegation".
For example, Lumans in Himmler's auxiliaries: the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German confirms that the conscription of Banat Germans into the division became mandatory at one point, but "earning a reputation for fierce fighting and cruel atrocities". Again, no "alegations" and no hinting at "counterclaims have been made that these crimes were in fact fighting between Yugoslav factions". No such user (talk) 07:19, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prinz Eugen division 

message: I removed unsourced info that "60,000 of the German civil population in Yugoslav Banat became victim of excessive revenge of the partisans". According to sources that I have (Nenad Stefanović, Jedan svet na Dunavu, Beograd, 2003) there was some 56,000 German victims in whole of Yugoslavia (not only in Banat, where just 120,541 of 499,969 Yugoslav Germans lived). According to the mentioned source, of those 56,000 some 8,000 were killed by the partisans and 48,000 died in camps from malnutrition, disease and coldness (which is exactly what this Knićanin monument says). Also, after abolishment of the camps, remaining Yugoslav Germans either left from Yugoslavia in the next decades because of economical reasons either were assimilated, mostly into Hungarians. Here is statistical data from Yugoslav censuses that confirms this: 1948 census: 57,180 Germans in Yugoslavia, 1953 census: 60,000, 1961 census: 20,015, 1971 census: 12,785, 1981 census: 8,712. Also, according to demographer dr Bogoljub Kočović (same source - "Jedan svet na Dunavu"), about 70,000 Yugoslav Germans were assimilated into other ethnicities, including 48,000 who were assimilated into Hungarians, 12,000 who were assimilated into Croats, 6,000 who were assimilated into Serbs and 3,000 who were assimilated into other ethnicities. This is sourced info that disapprove unsourced claims that "evil partisans simply killed them all". PANONIAN 21:24, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Germans

message: As explained in my edit summary, there are several reasons for this revert. It is contrary to WP:EASTEREGG because User:Nemambrata has linked a redirect to Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia which requires the reader to follow it to understand what is going on, and also because there are people who print articles. Nemambrata's change is also disputed, as the area was governed by the military government of occupation, not the military administration. They are not synonymous, and suggesting this exposes a lack of understanding about what the real situation was in the occupied territory. As has been pointed out before, action on this should be put on hold until the RM at Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia is resolved. Regards, Peacemaker67 (talk) 01:51, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia in this article 

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