Croatian Jews Outraged by Concentration Camp Film

Source: https://radiogornjigrad.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/croatian-jews-outraged-by-concentration-camp-film/

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Croatian Jewish representatives expressed outrage after the culture minister praised a film claiming the number of people killed by the country’s pro-Nazi WWII regime at the Jasenovac concentration camp was exaggerated. 

Writes:Sven Milekić (Balkaninsigh)

Claims that Jasenovac was not really a concentration camp, raised in a new documentary that was screened in Zagreb on Monday evening, have angered representatives of the country’s Jewish community.

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Mass grave of history: Vatican’s WWII identity crisis

Source: https://www.jpost.com/features/in-thespotlight/mass-grave-of-history-vaticans-wwii-identity-crisis

Catholic Church, looking for a bulwark against communism, supported what became genocidal regime of Nazi satellite Croatia.

By JULIA GORIN

Published: FEBRUARY 22, 2010 22:47

   

croatia concentration camp 311 (photo credit: Courtesy of Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museu)

Croatia concentration camp 311

(photo credit: Courtesy of Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museu)

The controversy over the canonization of Pope Pius XII concerns whetherhe spoke out enough against the slaughter of Jews during World War II.But that question is a red herring when trying to grasp the big pictureof the Vatican’s role during the war.

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