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No, it isn't true. Archbishop (and later Cardinal) Stepinac was never present at any "forced conversions".

Furthermore, Cardinal Stepinac will probably end up inducted into Yad Vashem as well.

"There is no doubt that one day the Croatian Archbishop (later the Cardinal) Alojzije Stepinac (1898-1960) will be included into this list. An official request to the Israeli Yad Vashem for the posthumous inclusion of dr Alojzije Stepinac to the list of Righteous has been sent by dr Amiel Shomrony and dr Igor Primorac, now both citizens of Israel. The request has been sent twice, for the first time in 1970, and then in 1994, and both times refused. Bear in mind that only saved Jews and their descendants have the right to nominate candidates to Yad Vashem. Official Jewish organization in Croatia did not send such a request yet.

According to solidly based data he saved several hundred Jews during the WW2: either by direct action, or by secret rescripts to the clergymen, including mixed marriages, conversion to Catholicism, as did some Righteous in other European countries (in Greece for instance). More...

>>>>No, it isn't true. Archbishop (and later Cardinal) Stepinac was never present at any "forced conversions".<<<<

I did not say that Stepinac was present at any forced conversions. He had no need do it, he was an Archbishop.

"Presided over forced conversion" means that he was supervising the process that was an official Nazi state policy.

In July 1941, Mile Budak, Minister of Education and religion of Nazi Croatia, publicly declared the aim of Nazi Government:

Croatian Nazi Mile Budak, who was a Minister in the Ustasha regime in Gospic, Bosnia during July 1941:

"We will kill one third of the Serbs, expell one third ,and the remaining ones we will convert to the Catholic faith, and thus make Croatia 100 % Catholic within 10 years. "

This genocidal intent has been carried out since April 1941. Croatian Nazi state had had means to murder and expell, but had no means to convert to RC faith WITHOUT Vatican and RC Church.

One may say that Vatican had no power to stop murder and expulsion, but the all power to stop forced conversions was in Vatican hands.

One may claim that Archbishop Stepinac was not aware what was going on and did not report it to The Holy See.

Unfortunatelly, not true. Bishop of Mostar informed him of what was going on