 Because Berlin had the final decision on the fate of the Yugoslav Banat, and the need to keep both of its allies, Bucharest and Budapest, loyal in its planned actions against the Soviet Union, the status of this region was postponed, to be determined at the end of the world conflagration.The "Six"

On the morning of 14 May 1945, outside of Toracul Mare, six villagers (four women–one of whom was pregnant–and two men) were massacred by a group of Yugoslav Partisans.Returning from Romania after they had visited relatives who took refuge there, the victims entered the village at dawn.