>From Anita Pare: Films by Günter Czernetzky were shown Sept. 23 at the Berlin Film Festival: Herta Müller Exhibition "Donbass-Slaves" and "Fate of the Danube Swabians" Films by Günter Czernetzky On Soviet orders during the war in January 1945, all Romanian Germans, women aged 18-30 years, males 17-45 years, were deported to labor camps for "rehabilitation." The camps were in the coal fields between Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk, in the Donbass, in today's Ukraine. Of the 80,000 deportees only about half returned by 1949 . In Romania, which had allied itself to Hitler, this topic was taboo after 1944 under this fascist dictator Antonescu. Herta Müller's 2009 novel »Atemschaukel« was created, and after many conversations a trip to Ukraine was planned with Oskar Pastior (1927-2006), who had admitted bluntly: the camp had been his socialization. In the early 90s the Transylvanian-born film director and producer Günter Czernetzky (born in 1956) who had emigrated to Germany in 1978, researched with former deportees in the archives of regional hospitals in the Ukraine and documented the systematic abuse and exploitation of displaced former deportees . In 1992 the documentary "Donbass - Slaves, Displaced Germans Remember" (author and director G. Czernetzky, ARD / BR) was released followed in 1998 "Fate of the Danube Swabians" (Authors: Astrid Beyer and G. Czernetzky, SDR) Günter Czernetzky presents his films in conversation with Ernest Wichner. .........................................................................................................................................................................................