HI Joe: I think my family said they were German because who on earth knows/knew what the Shwovish were. Also the fact that your family was in the contentration camp in Gakowa? Why Gakowa and not Krusevlje since Krusevlje was where you and your family lived? As for my father, he was born in Austria/Hungary, served in the Yugoslavian army, was also drafted into the German army and while in the Yugoslavian and German army, he was a British subject and held Canadian citizenship. It really didn't matter what citizenship he held. His final resting place was in the Ukraine. Helga. -----Original Message----- From: aztec2564@verizon.net Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:10 AM To: donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DVHH] Why our parents didn't say they were Shwovish .... My Father, Josef Hutflus and my Grand Parents Felix and Sabina Hutflus,born in Krusevlje, Yugoslavia considered themselves German. They spoke German and taught us German growing up. Some of my Family Hutflus members were put in the Gakova Death camps and starved or killed because they were German by Tito's partisans, " not because they were considered Yugoslavian." My family Hutflus were drafted into the German Army, because they were considered German by the German Government. My Hutflus family escaped during the night to Hungary, stayed there for a month or 2 then went to Austria, because they were German. I consider myself German-American, just as others consider themselves African-American, Irish-American, French-Canadian, etc. Joseph Hutflus New Jersey, USA.... _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message