Talk:Banat (1941–1944)

References and accuracy
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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Serious editorial work???
These 'references, are simply nonsense. Just click them to see what they are about

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Which way THIS might be a reference here???


 * 1) Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
 * 2) History of Europe, The Times, London, 2001.

--Guivon 00:14, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Why you claiming that these references are nonsense? It is not important what is main subject of these references but what they say about Banat and Serbia and they confirm that data written in this article is correct. PANONIAN  00:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Did you click these links? If not - do it and tell us what is there. Also, if this Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. is a reference - which way it supports the text? I can't believe my eyes that someone could claim such a nonsense!


 * I am not going to argue with you anymore nor I am going to revert any of your 'edits'--Guivon 02:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Of course that "I click these links" - why else would I use them there? And if you want description about them, no problem:
 * 1. http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-bl/istorija/kcsavic/csavich-eugen_e.html - this speak about "Prinz Eugen" SS Division organizen in Banat from local Germans
 * 2. http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticpages/257.html - this speak about persecutions against Jews in Banat
 * 3. http://www.porges.net/JewishHistoryOfYugoslavia.html - this too speak about persecuted Jews in Banat
 * 4. http://www.srpska-mreza.com/History/ww2/collapse.html - this link have quotes from Encyclopedia Britannica about political status of Banat in this time: "The rump of Serbia was placed under German military occupation and was allowed from August 1941 to have a puppet government of its own under Gen. Milan Nedic. The eastern half of Vojvodina (Banat) had a separate German military administration, in which members of the local German minority played the chief part."
 * 5. http://www.rastko.org.yu/filmtv/msavkovic-1941-1945.html - this also speak about political status of Banat in this time: "Banat was occupied by Germany – the civil government was organized by the members of the German national minority (Folksdeutschers)"
 * 6. Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. - source speak about number of civilian victims in Banat during WW2. PANONIAN  11:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

What shall be fixed here
When talking about autonomy of a region - it must be clear: who granted that autonomy, what kind of autonomy it was, and what scope. German military and civil administration in Belgrade was strictly hierarhically organized. Also, it is pointless even to talk about autnomy of a conquered and occupied region. Occupation and autonomy are mutual exclusive notions.
 * 'autonomous' region


 * If you see sources that I provided on this talk page, you will see that Banat was formally part of Serbia but was de facto ruled by its German minority. So, if you object to word "autonomy", what other word you propose for usage to describe a status of Banat? PANONIAN  23:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I've already told you - use valid international law and scholar terms. Belgrade was ruled by German minority (Herrenvolk) and was by no means autonomous.
 * We speak about Banat, not about Belgrade. But, yes, Banat was ruled by its German minority, so how would you describe this (autonomous? self-governing?). Just tell me what description you proposing because we will not go anywhere if you just "attacking" statement without saying your opinion how it should be changed. PANONIAN  23:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

It is just a misinterpretation of a map that depict inner organization of the occupier's administration of this region and drawn by an amateur. Calling upon Encyclopaedia Britannica does not make sense here - the text is too old and is removed twenty years ago from this encyclopaedia
 * the map of 'autonomous' Banat is not from a valid scholar source.
 * Same question as before: what other word instead "autonomy" you proposing for usage? PANONIAN  23:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Demographic data are from the year 1931 which does not fit into 1941-44 time interval
 * 1931 is the last census conducted before 1941, thus we do not have another one to reflect population of the region - the next one was not conducted before 1948. PANONIAN  23:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The references selected here do not have any data supporting the text of this article
 * This claim is just ridiculous - if you just read these references, you will see that they have such data. PANONIAN  23:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I did read these two books. They can be found in the in any bigger public library across the USA. Did you read them???
 * I read them - so what they say about status of Banat according to you? PANONIAN  23:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * 1. History of Europe, The Times, London, 2001.


 * This title uses full-colour digital mapping to chart 3000 years of European history. The subjects covered range from the difference between the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire to the origins of Europe's states. Not a single map supports the idea about autonomous Banat in the years of 1941-44


 * Try page 181 with map of 1942 Europe which show Banat as autonomous area within Serbia... PANONIAN  23:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No, it did not show nor say anything abou non-existent autonomy.
 * Ok, should I ask you again? - what other term should be used according to you? PANONIAN  23:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * 2. Richard Overy, History of the 20th century, The Times, London, 2003. (1996 and 2000)


 * The sixteen well known academics who contribute essays cover the century in six chapters:
 * The End of the Old World Order,
 * The World between the Wars,
 * The World at War,
 * The Cold War World,
 * Towards the New World Order and
 * The Revolutionary Century


 * Not a single essay ever touched Banat nor supports claim that Banat was an autonomous region in 1941-44 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.249.72.121 (talk) 21:12, August 26, 2007 (UTC)


 * Try page 85, which contain a map that show Banat more-less separatelly from Serbia and page 94 as well (same issue). Also see other sources that I showed to you on this talk page. PANONIAN  23:43, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No need to try anything. Please, state which essay this page belongs to and who wrote that essay
 * I do not understand a question - I speak about maps, not about essays. PANONIAN  23:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: I tried to locate the questionable reference and discovered that they do not exist in any university or public library database here in the USA or any publisher's database worldwide. My closest guess that it is about these two books:


 * 1. The "Times" History of Europe by Mark Almond (Author)


 * Paperback: 208 pages
 * Publisher: Times Books; 3rd Ed edition (November 5, 2001)
 * ISBN-10: 0007131615


 * 2. The Times History of the 20th Century by Richard Overy (Editor)


 * Hardcover: 256 pages
 * Publisher: Times Books (1999)
 * ISBN-10: 0723010285
 * ISBN-13: 978-0723010289


 * My comments are about these two books. If I am wrong - please, correct the books titles, the publisher house name, and/or provide the ISBN for both of them.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.249.9.118 (talk) 02:21, August 30, 2007 (UTC)


 * Are you joking? You just said that you read these books: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ABanat_%281941%E2%80%931944%29&diff=154514272&oldid=154058915 And now you want to say that they do not exist? Just decide first what of these two you will claim and then post a comment here because this is just ridiculous. PANONIAN  23:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay, now let me to be stratiforward with you. When I saw your 'references' I tried to locate them. I discovered immediately that under those titles, publisher name, and edition years they do not extst - as I already explained the same above. I did not want to be harsh with you and I pretended that you simply were careless when entering these 'references'. So, I stared with locating the books whose titles are the closest match to those you gave and wrote what I had written. The closest matches cannot confirm any of your claims. Due to the fact that you stubbornly insist on your claims and throwing into discussion some pages as a 'serious proof' of nonextstent things - I simply stepped up - please, give us the ISBN identifications of both 'references' - if you dare.--4.249.6.197 21:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, two things:
 * 1. references: The Times History of Europe (ISBN 0-0071-3161-5), The Times History of the 20th century (ISBN 0-0071-6637-0). And what my claims these books do not confirm? - do you saw these maps and way in which Banat is presented there? PANONIAN  08:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)


 * 2. I made changes in the article and removed word "autonomy" from both, article and map, so please say is there anything else that you do not agree with in this article. PANONIAN  08:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

What you are writing about is not the historical region of Banat. The Banat is a part of the Pannonian plain bordered by the River Danube to the south, the River Tisza (Theiss, Tissa, Tisa) to the west, the River Mureş to the north, and the Southern Carpathian Mountains to the east. More than 60 % of the banat-area has been part of Romania since the end of World War I. Its historical capital was Timişoara, now in Timiş county in Romania. You write about victims and war crimes. What do you think about the concentration camps in Knicanin and sremska mitrovica? At all, what hapened to the 350000 German people who had been living in Banat for 200 years? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.173.212.13 (talk) 16:57, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This is not an article about historical region of Banat, but about an WW2 political entity that existed from 1941 to 1944. If war crimes happened during existence of this entity that should be mentioned in this article. Other subjects are covered with other articles. PANONIAN  20:54, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Jabuka

 * 20.000 serbs were killed in Jabuka? Are you serious?--Speidelj (talk) 22:41, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * 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)


 * 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)

The article says: "==War crimes== During the war, German Axis troops killed 7,513 inhabitants of Banat: [Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996. (pages 42, 43)]", so 20.000 in the Banat village Jabuka but only 7513 in whole Banat?--87.144.226.124 (talk) 23:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * 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)

Please watch the discussion page of Jabuka.--87.144.232.93 (talk) 21:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Stratište
“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)
 * 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)

Prinz Eugen division
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.

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) 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.'''

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)

Germans
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 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)

Use of Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia in this article
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)

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