Bloody autumn in Hodschag
The murder of 181 men and 2 women on November 23, 1944 on the outskirts of Odžaci by Tito partisans is called Bloody Autumn in Hodschag . One person fled from the shooting. At that time during World War II, Hodschag belonged to the part of the Batschka that was occupied by the Hungarian Axis power .
Those killed were civilians of German nationality . Those affected were mostly important citizens of the city, such as the industrialist Franz Ertl , owner of the spinning and rope factory in town. Three Yugoslav Germans, Franz Kraus, the merchant Ladislaus Kollmann and Hans Petko, were not brought to execution because the Serbian municipal council intervened.
The act was committed by the Krajiska Partisan Brigade, which two days later killed 212 German men and adolescents in Bački Gračac ( Filipowa ).
Web links
- Memorial plaque for fallen Danube Swabians unveiled in Vojvodin town Hodschag. ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) www.dw-world.de, October 20, 2004, translation of an article in the Serbian newspaper Dnevnik
Individual evidence
- ^ Documentation of the expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe, Volume 5, p. 269 online
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
