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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in Bugojno wanted to confess to Frankovic that he had murdered fourteen Serbs, the Franciscan answered: "When you kill forty, then come to confess, and I will absolve you of everything." Deschner continues: Quite a few friars played the executioner in concentration camps. The Franciscan, Z v o n k o Brekalo, was an officer in the J a s e n o v a c "death c a m p . " He became i n f a m o u s as a mass murderer. One hundred twenty 101 thousand Serbs lost their lives at that time. In the Fall of
so forth. Unfortunately, the selection of sources I have been able to gather is fairly meager and obviously incomplete. Perhaps research will uncover more. 1. In the May 1, 1963 issue of the most popular German mass circulation magazine, Der Spiegel, there was an extensive feature on Croatian terrorist activities in West Germany. (74) It refers explicitly to "radical rightist Croatian emigres" and condemns their doings in the territory of the Federal Republic. Der Spiegel (which is published
"Antifasisticko Vece Narodno Oslobodjenja Jugoslavije," or the "Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia." 144 SUPPLEMENT TO GERMAN POLICY REPORTS QUOTED BY HORY A N D BROSZAT 1. Of the writers we have quoted, only Hory and Broszat refer extensively to German police files from the "Independent State of Croatia." We will now violate our rule almost completely by quoting a Croatian source, Mirko Persen, who relied on that part of the files which contains personal descriptions of
collapse" of the Yugoslav state, i.e., before any Serbian provocation in the form of resistance could be organized. Secondly, Bassi claims that the Croat actions were directed against the "Serbian element" i.e., without regard for any personal role in the prewar regime; thus, the underlying concept oft he repression was racial. Finally, Bassi relates that "the inhabitants of entire villages" were massacred. Whatever objections may be made to the prewar regime, the Serbian population in the
charged with crimes against the Croatian people. Many Serbs relied for their security on friendships, blood ties, and other connections with the new Croat officials; others thought that they became secure when they left the Orthodox rite and converted to Roman Catholicism. 177 The exodus of the remainder, however, was not a very peaceful affair; rather, it proceeded in conditions of utmost insecurity. Those who traveled on regular roads were detained and robbed by patrols of whatever they
