Hebrew to English Other History memoirs of a partisan

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אני יודע שהוא יילחם נגד השוואבים (גרמנים

I understand that this term refers to the Germans, because the text tells me that, but I would like to write it in English letters, and I have no idea if this is Polish or Ukrainian or something else and what it really means, if it is slang or a legitimate word, etc.

Thanks in advance to anyone who might recognize this term.