Russlanddeportierte in der rumäniendeutschen Presse des ersten Nachkriegsjahrzehnts
Deportees to Russia in the german press of Romania in the first postwar decade

Summary/Abstract: Today, the opinion prevails that the deportation of the germans from Romania in the Soviet Union after World War II was a taboo in Romania during the whole socialist period. This is not true as the author shows analysing the first two years of the newspaper "Neuer Weg" (1949-1950), when the only german newspaper in Romania related extensively about this topic. Those returning in 1949 and what they had to report about the Soviet Union were in the centre of the coverage. Also other newspapers published between 1945 and 1949 published wrote on occasion about the deportation. All newspapers had a generally positive attitude towards the Soviet Union. Influenced by communist ideology, the homecomers were celebrated as heroes. Their work was considered as a compensation for the collaboration with nazi Germany during the war. Beyond the propagandistic aim, the positive connotation of the work in the Soviet Union was an offer of integration to the german population of Romania by the socialist state.Contains 1 picture.

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