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The Catholic Church's
Holocaust in Croatia |
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The deniers of the Catholic Church's complicity in the holocaust are so numerous that there is barely a Roman Catholic in a million, no matter how educated, who is even aware of the atrocities perpetrated in the Roman Catholic country of Croatia in the name and under the leadership of their own Catholic hierarchy, and with the full knowledge and approval of the Vatican during World War II.
Eleanor Roosevelt was so right when she told the author of a book revealing this shocking history that the power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church was such that it could prevent the world from hearing what he had uncovered. Although Avro Manhattan is the leading authority on the atrocities committed in God's name during World War II, and much of what he has written is available online at www.reformation.org/holocaus.html, most Catholics know nothing about either Croatia or these scandals. Although the Church didn't see fit to put Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" on the Index of Forbidden Books, it made sure that all of Mr. Manhattan's books were on that Index. The following is an excerpt from the site http://www.reformation.org/holoc4.html, which highlights some of the writings of Avro Manhattan (1914-1990), whom some consider the world's foremost authority on Roman Catholicism in politics. A resident of London, during WW II he operated a radio station called "Radio Freedom" broadcasting to occupied Europe. He was the author of over 20 books, including the best-seller The Vatican in World Politics, which went through 57 editions and was twice Book-of-the-Month. He was a great Briton who risked his life daily to expose some of the darkest secrets of the Papacy. The web site above documents the fact that the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Croatia under the leadership of then Archbishop Stepinac during this period was not only complicit with the Nazis, but that their Catholic version of the Nazis, the "Ustashi", were even more guilty than the Nazis, because they committed atrocities in God's name, with the blessing of their priests, their bishops and the "Vicar of Christ" ! Here are examples of what you will find there, and at other similar sites : "The present author (A. M.), at a private dinner party in Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London, met Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late American President. Since, at this period, the author was engaged upon his inquiries concerning the authenticity of the Ustashi, he asked Mrs. Roosevelt whether she had ever heard of them.
"The Vatican record in Croatia was particularly open to condemnation and much worse than in Slovakia because of the monstrous crimes committed by a piously Catholic regime, headed by Ante Pavelic, the leader of the Ustashe movement, which had come to power on 10 April 1941. Ustashe violence directed against the 'schismatic' (i.e., the Orthodox Serbs), resembled a 'religious crusade.' The Vatican deplored preaching the gospel out of the barrel of a gun, but it also knew how proud the new regime was of its thirteen hundred year old links with the Holy See. The Croatian state had wasted no time in passing racial laws against the Jews-accomplishing in a matter of weeks (one month) what it had taken the Nazi regime years to achieve in Germany. As early as May 1941, Jews were being rounded up and sent to concentration camps." Within months of creating their "independent state" of Croatia, the leaders made clear what this new Catholic nation was all about : "On June 2, 1941, in Nova Grarfiska, Dr. Milovan Zanitch, Minister of Justice, declared:
"In a speech given in Gospic on June 6, 1941, Mile Budak, the Ustasha Minister of Education and Cults, explained the policy of genocide against the Orthodox Serbs as follows:
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| The Catholic Church and Dictator Pavelic were the epitome of a church-state merger |
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 surrounded by Bishops |
 surrounded by Priests |
 surrounded by Nuns |
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The Franciscans were among Pavelik's most devoted partners in crime.
"Priests, invariably Franciscans, took a leading part in the massacres.
Many went around routinely armed and performed their murderous acts with zeal. A Father Bozidar Bralow, known for the machine gun that was his constant companion, was accused of performing a dance around the bodies of 180 massacred Serbs at Alipasin-Most. Individual Franciscans killed, set fire to homes, sacked villages, and laid waste the Bosnian countryside at the head of Ustashe bands. In September of 1941, an Italian reporter wrote of a Franciscan he had witnessed south of Banta Luka urging on a band of Ustashe with his crucifix. "The Ustasha publication, Novi List, July 24, 1941, published this sentiment from Franciscan priest / pastor Mate Mogus, from Ubdina:
 "Corpses of children starved to death in the notorious Concentration Camp of Jasenovec in Catholic Croatia, one of whose commandants had been ordained in 1939 as a Franciscan Monk, Father Filipovic. [Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic], following the advice of another priest, Father D. Juric,
let more than 2,000 other Orthodox children die while the camp was still under his rule,
(Filipovic, who was Commandant of this and then of another camp during much of the worst period 1942 & 43.)
"Priest Bozo Simlesa, in the village of Listani, was one of the most active members of the Ustashi. He held the post of chief of the district of Livno. During the slaughter of the Serbs in the county of Listani he told the people from the pulpit that the time had arrived to exterminate all Serbs living in Croatia. He personally organized the Ustashi militia and obtained arms for them. On July 27, 1941, he held a meeting in the village, and when he was informed that all Serbian men had been murdered and that women and children were to be killed that night, he told them not to wait for the night, for twenty-four hours had already passed since the chief had issued his order that not a single Serb must be left alive in Croatia." Katolicki Tednik, publication of the archbishopric of Sarajevo, June 15, 1941, printed the following: '. . . For the Croatian people, the Serbs are the biggest enemies, to which, as in the rest of Europe, we can add the Jews, the Free Masons, and the communists. . . Therefore: may we finally stop using the dumb claim, so unworthy of the followers of Christ, that one should fight against evil and against ruinous people in a polite and elegant manner. Hildebrandt, the simple Benedictine monk filled with holy rage, and also Pope Gregory VII purged the Church of many parasites, not with elegance but with a strong hand directing the holy revolution. The poglavnik ("fuëhrer") is a courageous man, a great man, a man of God and of the people. May the dear Lord preserve our poglavnik for a long life! And may He preserve him always ready for action in the holy revolution against all evil!' "ibid, p. 132 Papal Rome / the Vatican cannot plead ignorance of the situation in Croatia. Branko Bokun, in his published diary, 'A Spy in the Vatican' tells of how he was sent from Yugoslavia to the Vatican with a file of evidence documenting the ongoing genocide, along with a letter imploring the 'pope' and the Vatican to order a stop to the massacres. Here are but a few examples of the documentary evidence in his file: 'This is very important,' he went on, handing me a newspaper cutting. ' It's from the Catholic paper, Katolicki Tjedenik.' It was headed, 'Why are the Jews persecuted?' 'Love has its own limits,' I read. 'Nazism, which aims to free the world of Jews, is a movement of the Renaissance of Human Dignity. Almighty God is aiding this movement.' … This is a copy of the special document No. 46468 issue by the Croatian Head of State on 30 July 1941. 'Orders for the conversion by force of all remaining Serbs and Jews.' …"This is an excerpt from the Bosnian Archbishop's article in The Catholic Weekly of Sarajevo. I have underlined the following phrase: 'It was foolish and unworthy of Christ's disciples to assume that the struggle against evil could be waged in a noble way and with gloves on.' Now a document describing the game of 'cut-throat' played by the Ustashi in concentration camps. Whoever is able to kill a Serb or a Jew causing the least agony is the winner. On 14 July the Pope received, and gave his blessing to, a hundred Ustashi policemen. The delegation was selected from the winners of 'cut-throat' ". [A Spy in the Vatican, © 1973 by Branko Bokun, pp. 9 - 10 ] And here is the letter that accompanied the file:
Ante Pavelic wrote to Pius XII:"Holy Father! Since divine providence has made it possible that I take over the helm of my people and my homeland, I am firmly determined and wish fervently that the Croatian people, faithful to their laudable past, also in the future remain loyal to the holy apostle Peter and his followers and that our homeland, filled with the law of the New Testament, become Christ's kingdom. In this truly great work, I fervently ask the aid of Your Holiness. As such aid I first see that Your Holiness with Your highest apostolic authority recognize our state, then that You deign as quickly as possible to send Your representative, who will help me with Your fatherly advice, and finally that he impart to me and my people the apostolic blessing. Kneeling at the feet of Your Holiness. I kiss your sacred right hand as the obedient son of Your Holiness". . . (ibid., p. 78) While the Vatican could not be so brazen as to grant to the Ustasha - NDH (Croatia) de jure (legal) recognition — it yet maintained recognition of and diplomacy with the exiled Yugoslavian government — it did grant the NDH de facto recognition in a couple of ways: In August 1941, the papal legate Ramiro Marcone was sent from Rome to Zagreb, providing a constant Vatican representative in the NDH. The NDH sent its representative Dr. Nikola Rusinovic to the Vatican, who was later replaced by Prince Erwin Lobkowicz. Thus, informal diplomatic relations were maintained. Also, in January 1942, Stepinac was appointed by Pius XII as military vicar 'sine titulo' for the Croatian army." his own web page, i.e. CatholicArrogance.Org/Catholic/Stepinac.html | |
But the evidence is yet far more damning. The legitimate government of Yugoslavia had gone into exile in London. Fascist Pavelic's NDH (Croatia) was a lawless regime and a puppet of Hitler's Germany. He had come into power under the protection of fascist Roman 'catholics' Mussolini and Hitler — both of whom had entered into concordats with the Vatican — Hitler's concordat having aided his (Hitler's) rise to power. Pavelic was a murderer and a fugitive from justice, sentenced to death for the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander.
"Orthodox worshippers, when not dispatched to concentration camps, suffered the same fate as their clergy. Congregations, unless willing to change their religion, were not only persecuted, hunted down and arrested; but, at times, besides being massacred by the Ustashi bayonets or machine guns, they were killed within their own churches. There were instances even when they were burned alive within them. To terrorize the population into becoming Catholic, the Ustashi very often hanged lay Orthodox Leaders and their Orthodox parish priests during mass executions under the very eyes of the faithful. This was one of the most tangible methods of 'persuasion' whenever the Orthodox proved obdurate. Those who escaped with their lives were sent to concentration camps, while about 700 that is, one quarter of the total number of Orthodox priests — were murdered by the Ustashi in this manner." "These were not isolated instances. The Ustashi more often than not massacred all the inhabitants of Serb villages, callously torturing and killing even children, and then setting the villages on fire. In the village of Susnjari, for instance, the Ustashi, after having killed most of the inhabitants, led away about twenty surviving children, whom they tied to the threshold of a big barn, which was then set on fire. Most of the children, of an average age of about ten, were burned alive. The few who survived, horribly scorched, were eventually killed. Eye-witnesses testified to similar occurrences: In the village of Gorevac, on September 13, 194i, children of about 3 years of age were impaled. In some places mothers threw themselves down with children in their arms, and one stake perforated mother and child. Some young girls had their breasts tied or cut, others had their hands made to pass through them. Men had their ears and noses sawn away, and eyes had been uprooted from their sockets." [from http://www.reformation.org/holoc5.html ] "The Nazis, who for a time were posted in Croatia, were so horrified at the Ustashi atrocities that they set up special commissions to investigate them. The Orthodox Church of Serbia, in fact, appealed directly to the Nazi General Dulkeman to intervene and stop the Ustashi horrors. The Germans and the Italians managed to restrain the Ustashi while they were under their supervision. When the Nazis left Croatia, however, the Ustashi multiplied their atrocities, unreprimanded by the Government. Since the latter's policy was one of total elimination of the Orthodox Serbian population via forcible conversions, expulsion, or straightforward massacre. Victims were executed in groups without trial on bridges and then thrown into the river. In May 1941 the Ustashi besieged Glina. Having gathered together all the Orthodox males of over fifteen years of age from Karlovac, Sisak and Petrinja, they drove them outside the town and killed 600 of them with guns, knives and sledge hammers." [ from http://www.reformation.org/holoc4.html ] "The prime mover behind this Ustasha activity in Rome was the secretary of the College, Father Dr. Krunoslav Stefano Dragonovic, who was also an Ustasha colonel and former official of the Croat 'Ministry for Internal Colonization,' the agency responsible for the confiscation of Serb property in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
[from ://www.pavelicpapers.com/documents/vatican/va0012.html ]
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The Vatican, The Nazis, and the Swiss Banks" by Mark Aarons and John Loftus "Pavelic had many reasons for concern, among them the horrific massacres of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies over the previous four years; half a million innocent civilians slaughtered at his personal command. Many had been dispatched using extremely medieval methods; eyes had been gouged out, limbs severed, intestines and other internal organs ripped from the bodies of the living. Some were slaughtered like beasts, their throats cut from ear to ear with special knives. Others died from blows to their heads with sledgehammers. Many more were simply burned alive. . . . One approaches him with indignation in one's soul and protests on one's lips, [but] it is impossible not to be disarmed by his simplicity, humanity, friendliness and sincerity and by his devastating combination of saintliness and charm. One talks so easily to him, he listens so readily, responds so frankly and smiles so enchantingly and easily that one's carefully prepared attitude of dignified disapprobation just evaporates." The Pope called Pavelic `a much maligned man'. Pius XII could not believe that he had been involved in the assassination at Marseilles, even though Pavelic had been convicted in absentia in a French court. The cynics back in the Foreign Office conceded that the Pope `must indeed be a charmer', but told their Ambassador in no uncertain terms that his reception of Pavelic `has done more to damage his reputation in this country than any other act since the war began'.' |
Too bad there was no Isaiah around to address these words of wisdom to this is "vicar of Christ":
" Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast; tell my people of their
sins! Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple
every day and are so delighted to hear the reading of my laws -- just as though they would obey them -- just as though they don't despise the commandments of their God!
How anxious they are to worship correctly; oh, how they love
the Temple services! ; ' We have fasted before you,'
they say. ' Why aren't you impressed? Why don't
you see our sacrifices? Why don't you hear our prayers?
We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it! '
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A young Yugoslav by the name of Branko Bokun. . . had been sent to Rome by one of Yugoslavia's intelligence chiefs to ask for the Vatican's intervention to stop the slaughter in Croatia. Armed with a large file of documents, eye witness accounts and even photographs of the massacres, Bokun finally gained entrance into the Vatican Secretariat of State in September 1941.
He wanted to deliver his file to Monsignor Giovanni Montini, Under Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs, (the future Pope Paul VI) but could not gain an audience. Bokun was told to leave his file and come back a week later, with the promise that `the Monsignor will give the matter careful consideration'. As the Ustashe were engaged in their most barbaric atrocities, Archbishop Stepinac bragged of ten of the achievements of this Catholic state. The first of them was the crackdown on abortion as a threat to both the Croatian state and the Catholic Church. The second was the banning of all pornographic content, as this was the real pestilence for Croation youth. When 8000 photographs were delivered to the Vatican to document the atrocities committed by the so-called Catholic authorities of Croatia, Archbishop Stepinac wrote to dissuade the Vatican from "believing their own eyes". As horrible a man as Ante Pavelic had been during the war, his church continued to befriend and protect him (and those who had carrried out his orders) as is evident in the report below :by the U.S.Army Counter Intelligence Corps :  At the end of World War II, one of the worst of the Ustashe, Andrija Artukovic', known as the "the Himmler of the Balkans", was one of beneficiaries of the Vatican "rate line", which enabled war criminals to evade by being smuggled out of Europe to safe places abroad. This particular criminal was given a new identity which enabled him to escape to the U.S. When he was discovered in the 1980's, it took 20 years to extradite him, thanks to the advocacy of the Catholic Church on his behalf. He was eventually condemned to death, but he escaped punishment by dying a natural death at age 88. |
Vladimir Dedijer, the Yugoslav historian and eyewitness, Tito biographer and President of the International Russell Tribunal, has documented for the first time and comprehensively one of the bloodiest and most unknown chapters of the Second World War: the bestial murder of 800.000 Orthodox Serbs in Ustasha-Croatia, the »Kingdom of God«, by henchmen of the Catholic Church between 1941 and 1943. Particularly since the beginning of the civil wars in Yugoslavia, whose roots and background are illuminated in great depth by this historical documentation, this work has increased its circulation considerably: the fourth revised German edition has been published by now.
»...in Catholic Croatia, the 'Kingdom of God', everyone who did not belong to the Catholic faith - for the most part Orthodox Serbs - was compelled to convert to Catholicism. Those who refused - as well as many who had already converted - were murdered, usually after prolonged torture in which the order of the day was the cutting off of noses, ears, or other body parts, or poking out eyes. Children were cut out of the bodies of pregnant women and subsequently beheaded; people were chopped to pieces before the eyes of loved ones, who were even forced to catch the spurting blood in a bowl, etc., to list only a few horrors as examples. These atrocities assumed such an extent that even German Nazis, who were not exactly sensitive in such matters, protested. |
| in the Jewish Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis : www.CatholicArrogance.Org/RCscandal |
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According to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, the resistance of the Serbs in 1941 threw Adolf Hitler into one of the wildest rages of his entire life. He Directive No. 25 for the immediate invasion of Yugoslavia and advised Hungary, Rumania and Italy that, if they helped in this effort, they would all get a slice of Yugoslavia, which would be divided up among them, except for a Croatian state. Hitler announced the most fateful decision of all. "The beginning of the Barbarossa operation [attack on Russia]," he told his generals, "will have to be postponed up to four weeks." (It had originally been set for May 15 in the directive of December 18, 1940).
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