Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable—between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them women and children—and the losses horrifying—at least 500,000 people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, while locked in trains en route, or after arriving in Germany exhausted, malnourished, and homeless. This book is the first in any language to tell the full story of this immense man-made catastrophe.

Based mainly on archival records of the countries that carried out the forced migrations and of the international humanitarian organizations that tried but failed to prevent the disastrous results, Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War is an authoritative and objective account. It examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the expulsions were conceived, planned, and executed and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The book is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing," and it may also be the most significant untold story of the Second World War.

R. M. Douglas is associate professor of history, Colgate University. He is the author of four previous books, including most recently Architects of the Resurrection: Ailtiri na hAiséirghe and the Fascist "New Order" in Ireland. He lives in Hamilton, NY.

Added Stefansfeld Village Map

Added Ernsthausen Surrounding Lands Map

Added Ernsthausen Village Map

Added a map of the Lands surrounding the Village of St. Hubert

Modern day Map of the Banat

Added map of Gross-Betschkerek in the Banat

Added Jarek Village Map

by Ernest Chrisbacher
Published by Gateway Press Inc., 347 pages, hard cover

Contents:
ETHNIC GERMANS OF VESZPRÉM COUNTY
GERMAN COLONIZATION IN HUNGARY - ORIGINS
TRANSITIONS, STRUGGLES & HARDSHIPS
GERMAN VILLAGES OF VESZPRÉM COUNTY - MAPS
LIFE IN THE GERMAN VILLAGES
EXODUS - A BETTER LIFE IN AMERICA
THE TRAUMA OF WORLD WAR TWO - ETHNIC CLEANSING
IMMIGRANTS LIST & PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

Ethnic & Class Identity Formation Within The Germans of Hungary

by Balázs A. Szelényi

Added a custom Google Search feature that only searches Danube Swabian websites.

Genealogy at a Glance: German Genealogy Research by Ernest Thode

Starting with the first German settlers in 1683, then working through the various emigration waves all the way up to the farmers and small tradesmen from southwestern and central Germany who came to America in chain migrations in the mid-nineteenth century, and German speakers who came from outside Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thode's German Genealogy Research provides all the basic instruction you need, focusing on key record sources and materials for further reference and finishing with a listing of major online sources.

Price: $7.95

Added a link to the Radix Hungarian Ancestry Research website.

This website is dedicated to genealogy research in Hungary and it aims at helping family historians in finding out more about their Hungarian ancestry.

Added a link to Dave Dreyer's "United States Customs and Immigration Passenger Ship Records".

Emigrants and Exiles is the last in the trilogy series by Henry A. Fischer. The books follow the ongoing quest for the Promised Land that leads to emigration to the Americas and the tragic fate and dispersal of the exiles following the Second World War.

The books can be ordered by calling 1-800-839-8640, by clicking here or through amazon.com

Added Ruskodorf Village Map

Added Setschanfeld Village Map, as drawn in 1972 by Hans Monnich from memory. The map represents the years 1943-1944

Added link to Triebswetter (Banat) website.

Link was provided by Anita Pare.

Bács-Bodrog
Baranya
Esztergom
Gyōr
Komárom
Krassó-Szörény
Máramaros
Moson
Pozsega
Somogy
Sopron
Szatmár
Szerém
Temes
Tolna
Torontál
Vas
Verszprem

Added Josefsdorf Village Map from David Dreyer

Many thanks to Herbert Hoffmann for providing the link to the Neu-Pasua website.

Anita Pare has submitted a link to the Cservenka – Crvenka Tscherwenkaer Fmilienbuch

Antia Pare has sent us a link to the Kischker in der Batschka web site.

Thanks to Anita Pare for the link to the Electronic Banat website.