In response to Mr. Coppel's letter (May 26), I would like to iterate my history. I am what is known as a Danube Swabian. The Swabians were a Germanic tribe, which I believe originated from the Alsace ...
It is the late 18th century in feudal Germany when 12-year-old Karl Schuler becomes orphaned and is sent to live with a local miller where he learns a trade and becomes a young man. He learns of a ...
The Danube Swabians recently presented the Des Plaines Community Foundation with a check for $3,000.
Eckhard Blaumueller, president of the Danube Swabians recently presented the Des Plaines Community Foundation with a check for $3,000. "The Danube Swabians have been very generous this year, donating ...
Serbia has for the first time recognized the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Germans at the end of World War II. From a pre-war population of 550,000, only 4,000 remain. Serbian Prime Minister ...
When Henry Hobrath hears about the plight of refugees from Syria and other besieged countries, he can relate. An ethnic German whose ancestors lived for centuries in what is now Yugoslavia, Hobrath ...
North Royalton-- Josef Holzer recreated the Danube's shores in Olmsted Township. Holzer, 86, a local and national leader of Donauschwabens (Danube Swabians, ethnic Germans from the Danube region), ...
Unique in Romania for its perfectly circular layout, the village of Charlottenburg — like other Banat settlements founded during the Habsburg Empire — was once home to Danube Swabians who arrived here ...
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