JASENOVAC - WAHRHEIT MACHT FREI

The World knows nothing about Jasenovac
Croatian WW2 death camp that was "worse than Auschwitz" 

Interview with Gideon Greif Source

The Croatian death camp Jasenovac was established, first of all, for the extermination of Serbs, as part of the policy of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945). Jasenovac was the largest in the camp system for "resolving the Serbian issue in Croatia". Not the only one. In these camps, besides Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were killed. Tito's communists did everything they could, after the Second World War, to hide the genocide of Croats over Serbs. Therefore, Jasenovac, and even the genocide of Croats over the Serbs, was largely unknown beyond the borders of Yugoslavia.  Jasenovac was leveld, not by the Ustasha (Croatian military "units"), but by Tito's partisans. They thoroughly destroyed other places where Croats exterminated Serbs, as well. Apparently, for the sake of "brotherhood and unity" in communist Yugoslavia. Then, as it is now, the basic way of achieving "stability" was that Serbs give, give and give. To make various concessions, to the never satisfied Croatians, as well as to the national minorities, especially Shqiptars (so called “Albanians”) in Socialistic Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, one of the two autonomies, whom by Tito had mutilated a beautiful face of the Socialistic Republic of Serbia, beside those “socialistic”, and “republic”. Other ocialistic Republics haven’t had socialistic autonomous provinces. First the Nazis, than the Communists, now The West, but the Serbs gotta be punished no matter which bully come into power at the Balkans. Certain political elements have been persistently trying to push Serbia into the EU, since the October 2000 coup. It is a game of eternal entry, where concessions, including territorial ones, are constantly asked from Serbs and Serbia. For the sake of "peace and stability" in the region, again. Abroad and at home it has been working full time, already, to give the Shqiptars as much of Serbian territories, as possible, because beside today's Northern Albania and the Serbian city of Shkodra, which was given to them in 1912, they now require more of Serbian territories, namely, Kosovo and Metohija. Of course, not to forget, there are also Croats. Those who, without the Serbs, not only would not have a state, but also would not know how to recognize “their” territory, are now seeking "border correction" with Serbia, certainly at the Serbia’s expense. And it shall & nbsp; be "a condition for joining the EU". In order to get stabilized, Serbia should stop giving, giving and constantly giving, but ... > If the Shqiptar’s crimes against Serbs were awarded with Serbian territory, would Croatian crimes against Serbs be rewarded in the same and traditional way, by now? Jasenovac ...

Jasenovac was a death camp for Serbs, Jews, and Roma, ran by the Ustasha regime of the Nazi-allied Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during the Second World War in the Balkans. "It was hell on earth. That is why in Jasenovac, the Croatian hands are completely covered in blood," Professor Gideon Greif said.

Professor Greif, the chief historian of the Israel Institute for Education, Documentation and Research of the Holocaust Shem Olam, told the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti in an interview that he and Rabbi Avraham Krieger, who heads the institute, came to Belgrade to express their opposition to Croatian attempts to revise history.

He noted that it was devastating that many of his colleagues, historians, do not know anything about Jasenovac.

"They do not even know in which state it was in, let alone locating it. And the history of those killed in Jasenovac is not only a history of death, but a history of atrocities, of evil, sadism, inhumanity. In the concentration camps led by the Croats, death had the highest value," the daily quoted Greif as saying.

He added that Jasenovac and other camps in its "system" were different from other Nazi camps because, according to the testimonies of the survivors, torture there was much more monstrous than in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. It is also different because it was established and operated without the involvement of German soldiers.

On October 9, 1942, Lubricic Vjekoslav, known as "Max" at a ceremony in Jasenovac, which he organized as a celebration of the anniversary of his bloody rule in his speech, said: "... and so this year, here in Jasenovac, we slaughtered more people than the Ottoman Empire for the entire Turkish stay in Europe."

The professor has been studying Jasenovac for the last two years, and has announced the publication of his book, "Jasenovac - the Auschwitz of the Balkans." He observed that Jasenovac was unique in having death camps for children.

"The Germans had camps for women, men or mixed, where children were with the adults, but the Croats went a step further and even had children's camps. Horror," said Greif, adding that "the terrible and indisputable truth" is that even German officers visiting Jasenovac and other camps in Croatia were stunned by the brutality of they saw.

In WWII Croatians served Nazi Germany, today .....

The professor then recalled that on July 10, 1941, the German military attache in Zagreb, Edmond von Horstenau, wrote to Heinrich Himmler that the German troops were "silent witnesses to the brutality of the Ustasha over the Serbs, Jews and Roma."

The professor said that because of all the horrors he learned about the victims of Jasenovac over the past two years, he decided to devote some of his work to their lives, pointing out that he was certain that "their killers the Croats and their friends" will not succeed in "erasing the traces of the crime, rewriting history, and twisting the facts."

Vecernje Novosti also published an article on Wednesday stating that the documents that hide the true truth about the role of Alojzije Stepinac are locked in the Zagreb Catholic Archdiocese, and inaccessible.

According to him, the people who intend to canonize Stepinac are "criminals who are mocking the victims of Jasenovac" - a camp where, according to the survivors, torture was even more horrible than in Auschwitz.

Croatians Call for Serbs to get registered under the threat of the transportation to a camp for the "forced labor", April 12, 1941. (left); Croatians enforce Serbs to the death camp (upper middle); Croatian State genocide over Serbs (lower middle); Jasenovac layout (right)

STEPINAC

"When it comes to Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, I will tell you briefly: his canonization is a crime in itself, and people who intend to canonize him are criminals mocking the victims. Anyone who has supported a criminal regime like the Ustasha one does not deserve any reward," said Greif.

All compromising documents have been taken out of the Croatian State Security's dossier on Stepinac and ended up locked away, instead of in the Croatian State Archives, the daily said.

This "triage" of documents was done by top Croatian Catholic officials, "while some documents were taken out by Croatia's first president, Franjo Tudjman."

The documents remain unavailable to researchers and historians, including the members of a mixed commission made up of representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and the Catholic Church in Croatia, who have been in dialogue for a year hoping to clarify the role of Stepinac during the Second World War.

The SPC is opposed to the canonization of Stepinac, which is why Pope Francis last year suspended the proceedings.

EXHIBITION IN ISRAEL IN EARLY DECEMBER

PROFESSOR Gideon Graef is the director of the International Expert Group of Historians who on January 27th, on the occasion of 75 years since the founding of Jasenovac, organized an exhibition "The Truth About Jasenovac - the Right to Remember" in New York, which was the biggest exibition of this Ustasha camp, abroad, consisting on 180 panels with texts of historians, 25 sculptures of sculptors Ljubiša Mancic and Katarina Tripkovic and 21 drawings by Dragan Jelovac, as well as authentic items of the Memorial Center "Donja Gradina" and material from the archives of Israel, Germany, USA, Italy, Norway, Republic of Srpska, Croatia and Serbia. This exhibition will be held in Israel in December, as well. [The interview was conducted by Jelena Matijević]