The Holocaust in the "Independent State of Croatia": An account based on German, Italian and the other sources
Lazo M. Kostich
Language: English
Pages: 305
ISBN: B0006EDZUC
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
English translation of two of Kostich's books in Serbian. This books focus is mainly the extermination, forced conversions, and deportations of Serbian/Orthodox residents within the Independent State of Croatia.
Kostich has a pro-Serbian and, from reading the first half of the book, probably an anti-Communist bias. He does not chronicle the activity of the partisans, however. The focus of this book is the treatment of Serbians.
Recommended for those interested in the history of the region.
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Blameworthy... And evidence will probably be found of many Catholic priests willing to risk their lives in order to treat the persecuted humanely, as befits Christians. Perhaps there were more of them who were silently doing just that, than there were those who were simply silent about the misdeeds. Kostich also quotes the following statement by the German commander, General Glaise von Horstenau, regarding the attitude of the Croatian population towards the policies of the Ustashi government: The.
Treading the hated path of collaboration, perhaps he could have saved Croatia from the disastrous Pavelic regime, (while also preserving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Serbs who fell victim to the Ustashi), his country from the humiliating Rome Protocols, and the Croatian people from historical shame.. .For already in July, 1941, the Germans were fed up with the Ustashi's bloody butcherings and the incapacity of the Pavelic regime. On page 197, Wuescht italicizes: ' T h e fact that only a.
Adopted those racist elements of the National Socialist program which corresponded to the specific Yugoslav conditions. The Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies were the national and religious groups of which the future Croatia had to be purged. When German troops attacked Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, the Croatian population greeted them with exultation... as harbingers of a free Croatian state. That state was promptly taken over by the Utashi." Not long after, there was some sobering up, even shock: For the.
Had here, more or less, made use of poetic license, his passages nevertheless correctly characterize the nature of that man and his terroristic rule." And again, on page 238: T h a t was the man whom Pius XII blessed." Regarding Pavelic' flight (p. 251): "On May 4, 1945, Pavelic fled with his family and several thousand gangsters, among them 500 Catholic priests. Pavelic and Artukovic, 3 heavily loaded with plundered gold, found refuge in Austria, arrived in Rome in priests' disguise and later.
Were "troops stationed in a friendly and allied country." Any intervention was punishable. "Thus, it was not rare for Serbian women and children, who sought refuge and protection in some Italian military encampment, to be chased away and left to the power of their merciless persecutors after appropriate interventions of Croatian civilian authorities with our military commands." Nevertheless, Angelini claims that the ...proverbial humanity of the Italian soldier, often outwitted those official.