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“A Brutal 20^th Century Holocaust” 

Handout #6 // February 5, 2006 

Here are some facts about a brutal 20^th century holocaust that generally are not included in many history textbooks or encyclopedias here in America: 

·        The German Army invaded Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, and installed a puppet government.  An independent Fascist state of Croatia, allied with the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, was set up in May 1941.  The state of Croatia was a “marriage” of Fascism and Roman Catholic ecclesiastical monopoly and tyranny.

·        A brutal 20^th century holocaust occurred in Croatia in the 1940s.  This holocaust – a modern Church-State genocide – took the lives of from 600,000 to one million innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and children.

·        This religious genocide included barbaric acts of cruelty and torture on a massive scale – seldom seen in its ferocity amongst the vilest pagan civilizations.  It also included “forced conversions” – sometimes with the “converted” having their throats cut after converting.

·        The barbarity included such monstrous acts as: impaling children on stakes; crucifying Orthodox priests to wooden doors; burning, burying, and flaying people alive; raping, ravishing, savaging, and mutilating young girls and women; gouging out eyes; cutting eyes out in order to make “eye necklaces”; crushing skulls; and other vile, barbaric acts.

·        A Roman Catholic militia, the Ustashi, carried out this brutal religious genocide against innocent Serb Orthodox Christians. This genocide was planned, choreographed, and led by Roman Catholic clergy – mainly Franciscan priests, friars, and monks – some of whom served as concentration camp commandants.  Jesuits also played a key role in this Church-State genocide, such as Monseigneur Saric, the Jesuit Archbishop of Sarajevo.

·        Edmond Paris, author of the book The Secret History of the Jesuits, reports that Pope Pius XII was “so pleased” [to hear] that the brutal dictator of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, was a “practicing Catholic”.  Paris also lets us know that on July 22, 1941, Pope Pius XII “received one hundred members of the Croatian Security Police…  This group of Croatian SS, the pick of the executioners and torturers operating in the concentration camps, were presented to the ‘Holy Father’ by one [i.e., Zagreb’s Police Chief] who perpetrated crimes so monstrous that his own mother committed suicide in despair.”

·        Edmond Paris also gives us the following words, in August 1941, from Mile Budak, Croatian Minister of Worship: “The Ustashi [Catholic militia] movement is based on [the Roman Catholic] religion.  All our work [Ed. Note: which included vicious torture and mass murder] is based on our loyalty to religion and the [Roman] Catholic Church.”

·        In fact, the Vatican signed Concordats with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy – and supported all the Fascist states in Europe during World War II.