My mother’s family were Volks Deutch that lived in the former Yugoslavia in what is now Croatia in the Danube valley until the end of ww11. They grew flax and made it by hand into linen. Quite a process I have seen it done at various historical farms. I still have a table cloth made by my great grandmother and given to my grandmother on her wedding. One of the few things we have from that time having fled the region on wagons as the war ended. They walked 600 miles to Austrian Bavarian border area near Salzburg. They were lucky half the column was directed to Dresden just in time to be caught in the great fire bombing. We lost nearly everyone that had the misfortune to go north. My grandfather was drafted into the German army when Yugoslavia was first conquered. He was captured and did not get out until 1950 when he escaped and made his way to Austria.
Big Gus
Werner Gstattenbauer