In Croatia, we often hear the name of the Danube Swabians for members of the German minority, mostly in the area of Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem. They are also known under another name that was created during the World War II. This name is a Volksdeutsche and is referred to all Germans born outside the country. On the Croatian territory they began to settle after the expulsion of the Ottoman Turks in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. They founded the new settlements, and enhanced the economic and cultural life of the local population. The end of good relations and co-existence with the local population ends with the appearance of Nazi ideology. Some of them were supporting the Nazi ideology, some were helping partisan movement, while some were passive and did not support anyone. With allied victory in World War II their fate was closely associated with the defeat of the Third Reich. In Croatia, as well as in the whole of Yugoslavia, the new government declared them accomplices in World War II and the enemies of the state. Thus in 1945 began the process of confiscation of their property and placing them in concentration camps until the final decision of what to do with them. Their property and possessions were used in the implementation of the agrarian reform and colonization. After the dissolution of the camps in 1948, most Germans left for southern Bavaria, where their descendants still live. Agrarian reform and colonization began in 1945 and ended in 1948. Unlike the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the new authorities succeeded to solve the ownership and land relations, while the process of colonisation enabled relocation of population from the overcrowded and poor parts of Croatia and other Yugoslav republics to other areas where they got their own land.