Die Beschlagnahme des Eigentums der Gottscheer Deutschen
Confiscation of Property of Gottscheer Germans

Summary/Abstract: Under the Agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the Third Reich, about 12,500 ethnic Germans were resettled in the fall and winter of 1941/42 out of the Gottscheer County. Their property was taken over by the German “Treuhand-Gesell schaft” and sold to the Italian settlement company Emona. Through the adoption of AVNOJ-Bureau from November 1944, the new Yugoslav authorities confiscated, in favour of the state, the German state property as well as the property of German nationals and persons of German nationality. Most members of the German minority, who have remained in Slovenia to the end of the war, were banished. The confiscation of the property of the Gottscheers made of the now empty Gottscheer County a perfect district for organizing a large-scale socialist economy. Emigration, the war devastations, the confiscation plus the inadequate colonization, and false human, economic and cultural policies have led to the disappearance of the German cultural image. Of the 176 German settlements, 112 were burned or distroyed in another way and do no longer exist today. Given the fate of Gottscheers, the material witnesses of the former German settlement are very rare.

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