Talk:Lazarevo

Lukács

You are wrong. Lukács in this case is not a surname but a first name of a member of the Hungarian noble Lázár de Écska family. --Koppany 08:10, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since when is name written before surname in Hungarian? PANONIAN 22:22, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quite often in foreign languages that sometimes causes confusion. --Koppany 06:11, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Features

This section is confusing. I read it as "many citizens belong to these associations" and "the football team contributed a few members to the Yugoslav national squad", but I'm not sure. Hopefully the original author or someone who knows better will see this and fix the awkward wording.Matttoothman (talk) 21:09, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Germans

No single German was "ethnically cleansed". Most of the Germans left from Vojvodina together with defeated German army before partisans and Red Army would have chance to "cleanse" them. The minority of them who remained in the region were sent to prison camps that existed up to 1948. After camps were abolished, Germans became free citizens of Yugoslavia. In the next decades, most of them emigrated to Germany because of economic reasons. They were not "cleansed", "expelled" or what ever. This is an shameful tendency to accuse Serbs and Serbia for various types of "ethnic cleansing" wherever you can without any reliable sources or any real knowledge about the events. PANONIAN 07:17, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unlike other Swabian villages, Lazarevo was not evacuated when the Red Army was approaching, so most of the German population remained in October 1944. After the Sowjets continued their fight towards Hungary, the civilian population came under control of Tito's partisans. Some were murdered, some were put into labor camps (e.g. camp Rudolfsgnad/Knićanin, camp Gakowa in today's Opština Sombor), some were sent to the Sowjet Union and some were allowed to stay in the village (the old ones). The German exodus from Lazarevo only took place in 1947, when the harsh treatment did not end and there was an opportunity to cross the border towards Romania (were the communists were not yet fully in power) and from there to Hungary and further to Austria and than Germany. It is not true, that they left when the Red Army was approaching in summer 1944 and it is also euphemistic to say, they later left for economic reasons, like later the "gastarbeiter". It was more or less an willing ethnic cleansing, ordered by Tito's government. If you are really interested in the Swabian point of view of the village's history (which of course is also not free of national bias and some ahistoric legends), read the following website: http://www.lazarfeld.de/chronik-und-mehr/ortsgeschichte-1800-1950/ --El bes (talk) 04:12, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]