The Danube Swabians

Chapter 1 Scope and Objectives

Chapter 2 The Early Magyar State — First German Immigrations

Chapter 3 The 18th Century “Great Swabian Migration” — the Austrian Military Border — Growing Differences — Swabian Settlements in Hungary

Chapter 4 Socio-Economic Texture of the Swabians in the Period before World War II

Chapter 5 Hungarian Policies on Minorities Education, 1868–1944 Patterns in Culture

Chapter 6 Relations between State and Minorities in the Period Before Hitler

Chapter 7 Swabian Views on the Magyar State Idea — Political and Organizational Texture of the Swabians in the Pre-Hitler Period

Chapter 8 Relations of the Volksdeutsche with Germany and Austria before the Nazi Era — the Role of the Deutsches Auslandsinstitut

Chapter 9 Political and Organizational Texture of the Swabians from the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II — the Course of Nazification

Chapter 10 The Swabians and the Third Reich — Nazified and “Co-Ordinated” — Recruited for the Waffen SS

Chapter 11 Hungary and Hitler’s Germany — Currents and Counter-Currents — Hungarian Visions and Realities

Chapter 12 Wartime Territorial Gains of Hungary and the Swabians of These Areas — Variations on an Old Theme

Chapter 13 Evacuation and Flight

Chapter 14 The Immediate Post-World War II Period

Chapter 15 Expulsion — The Swabians in Present Day Hungary

Chapter 16 Post Mortem on the Expulsion

Chapter 17 The “Great Homecoming” — Settlement in West Germany

Chapter 18 A Survey of the Danube Swabians in Rumania

Chapter 19 The Swabian Scene before the Rise of Hitler

Chapter 20 The Swabian Scene after the Rise of Hitler

Chapter 21 Taking Stock