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Vatican
Holocaust Archive Pictures |
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#1
Zagreb Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac
(right), at an official Croatian ceremony in 1941
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#2
Ustashi soldiers pose with the corpses
of five Serbs. By war's end, they would slaughter over 700,000 more!!
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#3
Forced Conversion. The Ustashi promised
the Serbs that they would be spared death if they converted from Eastern
Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism. Thousand converted, only to be killed
anyway.
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#4
Elderly Holocaust survivors, many of
whom lost entire families in concentration camps, listen as Jewish
leaders in Zagreb explain the process of filing for restitution from
Swiss banks that received Nazi gold. |
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#5
Archbishop Stepinac greets Ante Pavelic on the
anniversary of the Independent State of Croatia. |
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#6
Entrance to the infamous concentration camp of
Jasenovac. The sign reads, "Work service of the Ustashi Defense Assembly
Camp Nr. III."
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#7
Serb children after their rescue from the Ustashi
camp. |
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#8
In the camp of Jasenovic and Stara Gradiska about 8000
children died.
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#9
1941: Children in the Stara Gradiska concentration
camp dying of slow starvation. The government of the satellite state of
Croatia ordered caustic soda to be added to their food in order to
eliminate them. |
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#10
In Jasenovac and other camps, the Ustashi broke the
jaws of the victims and removed the gold crowns, took away the
medallions, and took the hidden gold from the rich prisoners. The gold
ended up in the palace of Archbishop Stepinac and was later shipped to
Rome!! |
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#11
Gold watches taken from Serb and Jewish victims and
hidden in the residence of the Archbishop of Zagreb, where they were
found after the retreat of the Ustashi.
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#12
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Ante Pavelic had a hobby of collecting
human eyes!! One day a visitor came to his headquarters and noticed
what looked like a bowl of oysters on the table. "Oysters from Dalmatia"
he exclaimed. "No" said Pavelic "this is a bowl of Serb eyes"
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#13
The Serb Milos Teslic, a famous industrialist and
philanthropist, was gruesomely tortured and murdered by the Ustashi.
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#14
Ustashi carrying the head of a Serbian
Orthodox priest
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#15
Nuns marching with Croatian Nazi legionaires.
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#16
Archbishop Stepinac and the papal nuncio Marcone leave
a celebration; behind them is a German General.
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#17
The papal nuncio Marcone (in the white robes of the Dominican order),
Archbishop Stepinac next to him, and around them sit leading military
representatives of Nazi Germany and the NDH.
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#18
Members of Pavelic's bodyguard
swear allegiance unto death to the Croatian leader and receive
the "church's" blessing!! |
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#19
Reception of the Ustashi Police special unit at the
Vatican in Sept. 1943.
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#19
Reception of the Ustashi Police special unit at the
Vatican in Sept. 1943.
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Archbishop Stepinac said this on March 28, 1941:
All in all, Croats and Serbs are of two worlds,
northpole and southpole, never will they be able to get together
unless by a miracle of God. The schism (Eastern Orthodoxy) is the
greatest curse in Europe, almost greater than
Protestantism. Here there is no moral, no principles, no
truth, no justice, no honesty.
Poison Gas
Poison gas was also used as a method of extermination. You can
always tell that the Vatican is involved by their use of poison.
Dr. Alberto Rivera
said that as a Jesuit priest he had to show proficiency in all
types of poison.
The first experiments with poison gas were carried out in the
veterinary chamber in the work room of the so-called "Economy,"
where mangy horses were healed. The horses were handled in such a
way that the rump was in the chamber and only the head protruded.
For the treatment, sulfur dioxide was used. They also tried this
poison on people, as well as Zyklon. In the first experiments, it
was discovered, however, that the victims, because of the
permeability of the walls and the crude introduction of the gas, did
not die so quickly and so easily and that they also revealed the
cite of their torture by their terrible screams. In this chamber,
other gases were also tried for killing prisoners, but without
success.
The above quote and a few of the less graphic pictures are from the
book The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican by Vladimir Dedijer
published by Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York,
©1988.
Editor's Note
The Ustashi took pictures for two reasons: One, they
believed Hitler would win the war, and two, they would have evidence
to show their bosses that they did a good job of
exterminating!!
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