The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican - Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II (Hardcover)

First-hand testimony of survivors and eyewitnesses is compiled in this shocking and graphic account of the crimes committed during World War II at the largest death camp in Yugoslavia. At the small Croatian town of Jasenovac, the fascist "Independent State of Croatia" (a satellite state of the Nazi Third Reich) constructed a concentration camp where more than 200,000 people, mostly Orthodox Serbs, were systematically murdered. Among the participants in this genocide were members of the Roman Catholic clergy, from the Franciscan monk who became the camp commandant to the infamous Archbishop Stepinac, the spiritual advisor to the fascist state appointed by Pope Pius XII. Vladimir Dedijer, a close associate of Tito, has collected irrefutable documentary and photographic evidence, attesting to thousands of atrocities and the complicity of the Catholic Church in these crimes. The events described in this important volume provide a historical context to the current conflict in Yugoslavia and shed light on the motivations behind the apparently senseless ethnic and religious strife which is tearing Yugoslavia apart. The massacre at Jasenovac was the terrible culmination of centuries-old animosities between Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats and a dark episode in the history of the Catholic Church, one that the Church has attempted to hush up for fifty years.

General

Imprint:	Prometheus Books UK
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1992
First published:	March 1992
Authors:	Vladimir Dedijer
Translators:	Harvey L. Kendall
Dimensions:	214 x 142 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	444
ISBN-13:	978-0-87975-752-6
Subtitles:	German
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LSN:	0-87975-752-3
Barcode:	9780879757526

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