The Shwova of Yugoslavia (German: Jugoslawienschwaben, Serbo-Croatian: jugoslovenski Svabos/југословенски Немци, jugoslavenski Svabos/југославенски Svabos) is a term for Germanic-speakers who form a minority group in former Yugoslavia, namely Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Slovenia. Despite the name for the group, the label includes ethnic Germans, primarily Shwova, and Austrians. The largest German minority was found in Serbia prior to dissolution of Yugoslavia.[1]
- ^ Mezger, Caroline (2020), Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-885016-8