Posted on 04/24/2014 4:38:37 AM PDT by Ravnagora
On April 22, 1945, a group of surviving inmates broke out of Nazi Croatia’s main death camp, Jasenovac. Just fifty years later, their memories – and the grisly history of Jasenovac – had become prey to politics, propaganda, and historical revisionism more concerned with the 1990s Yugoslav wars than with the truth about “Independent Croatia” and its factory of death.
South Gate of Jasenovac III “Brickworks” camp; (via Donja Gradina Memorial Association)
On April 10, 1941, four days after armies of the German Reich and their allies attacked the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Croat nationalists (Ustasha) allied with Hitler and Mussolini declared the “Independent State of Croatia” (NDH), comprising most of today’s country by that name, present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina, and parts of northern Serbia. Some 2 million Serbs lived in that territory, and one of the first goals of the Ustasha state was to change that – permanently.
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This is why the 2005 commemoration of Auschwitz – entirely appropriate and necessary in itself – was turned into a political spectacle, while the Serb and Jewish commemoration of Jasenovac was shoved down the proverbial memory hole. As readily as XX century rulers committed mass murder, XXI century politicians cry “genocide” to describe the suffering of officially designated victims, while actual genocides perpetrated against those out of grace – our out of sight – remain unacknowledged.
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Croatians are a savage bunch. Even on R&R in Split we’d be attacked by the locals.
Years ago I viewed a number of images of the Ustashi’s acts against the Serbs and was aghast, to say the least. Hard to imagine the hatred behind that level of violence. Thanks for posting this article.
MARK
Fascist Italy was also shocked and actively helped save the lives of Serbs and Jews facing savage death.
During the war, Diana Budisavljevich, an Austrian, used her connections and saved more than 12,000 Serb children from Croatian extermination camps.
As the war was nearing the end, many Ustashas changed uniforms and joined Communist partisans.
Communists destroyed the evidence of Croatian crimes in the name of "brotherhood and unity". for example, the entire archive of Diana Busisavljevich was destroyed by Communists, thus preventing saved children find their relatives.Many were raised up as Croatians, never learning of their true identity.
Croatia was, and still is the European Heart of Darkness. Ustasha mass murdererers are hailed as national heroes and the streets named after them.
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