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4 - Everything Went Downhill after that

Gunther, Refugee and Displaced Person with an SS Father

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2014

Kristen Renwick Monroe
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Chloe Lampros-Monroe
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Jonah Pellecchia
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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My name is Gunther. Usually when somebody asks me where I was born I always say I’m not from around here. My earliest recollection is of the fancy sort of a castle near Vienna that was a refugee station for the war. My actual birthplace as far as I know, well some people say the Northern part of Yugoslavia. But that's not what I understand. I understand Novi Sad. This was initially Serbia. It didn't become Yugoslavia until 1918. That would be on the border of Croatia, close to the border of southern Austria. I have no recollection of that since we had to get out because of the war. It was not popular to be German in what was considered Russian territory. We had to get out of there. We got half of a train because my people were part of the military and we went to Vienna through various steps. How we got to Novi Sad in the first place is beyond me. It could have been for religious reasons. We initially came from the Black Forest region, sometime around the First World War. All the way from there to Czechoslovakia. So we come from there. That's a long way from Germany.

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A Darkling Plain
Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War
, pp. 76 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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