Swabia’s World War II History

Since the 18th century, Swabians began to immigrate to Hungary, Romania and Serbia. They are a respected German group. During World War II, many ethnic Germans supported the German Nazi Party. Between 1944 and 1950, most immigrants returned to their home countries, and some went to the Americas.

In the past, Germans portrayed Swabians as stingy, simple-minded and neurotic people. In the 19th century German "Grimm's Fairy Tales" there was a story that mocked the locals, "The Seven Swabians". 》. But with the economic development of southern Germany, people think that they have good moral character of being thrifty, thrifty and enterprising. Their Swabian dialect is a branch of German High German and is far from standard German. Their last names often end in "le", "lin" and "ler".