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In the News (Wed 25 Nov 09)

  
  Croatian Axis Forces in WWII
The Ustashe took the opportunity, and on April 10th 1941, while the battles for Yugoslavia were still being waged, Yugoslav Colonel and secret Ustasha Slavko Kvaternik announced in Zagreb (Croatian capital) the formation of an "Independant State of Croatia" (Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska in the Croatian language - "NDH").
The Ustashe were highly motivated (mostly volunteers), and quickly earned a reputation for fanatical bravery, as well as brutality.
By the end of December 1943, the number of Ustashe volunteers had grown, as had the number of missions being undertaken by Ustashe rather than regular army units, and another re-organization was required.
www.feldgrau.com /a-croatia.html   (2633 words)

  
  Vatican Bank Claims
Ustashe front organizations like the Croatian Liberation Movement were involved in a series of terrorist operations in the United States 1976-1980 including an airline hijacking and several bombings in New York.
The Ustashe leader Pavelic was given refuge by the Vatican, Spain, and Argentine.
Thousands of Ustashe escaped justice for their crimes due to their wealth and influence and the backing of the Roman Catholic Church and who along with certain rogue elements in the US government portrayed these war criminals as anticommunist freedom fighters.
www.vaticanbankclaims.com /faqs.html   (586 words)

  
 War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
The Ustashe was founded in 1929 as a Croatian nationalist movement with a deep connection to Catholicism.
Ustashe leaders declared they would slaughter a third of the Serb population in Croatia, deport a third and convert the remaining third from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism.
The Ustashe has continued to exist over the years and until the 1980s its operatives were involved in acts of terror against diplomats and other Yugoslav targets abroad.
www.christusrex.org /www1/news/haaretz-1-15-06a.html   (1631 words)

  
 Pro-Nazi Legacy Lingers for Croatia
Croats view the Ustashe as an essentially nationalist movement and recall that until Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia in 1991, the years of Ustashe rule were the only period of independence in Croatia's modern history.
Tudjman's recommendation that the country adopts a new currency and call it the kuna, which was the name of the national currency in the Ustashe period.
That date was 51st anniversary of the establishment of the Ustashe state, which included not only most of present-day Croatia but almost all of what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina...
www.srpska-mreza.com /sakic/relate3.htm   (652 words)

  
 Ustashe and Hitler
The Ustashe, which means "rebellion", performed acts of genocide against Serbs, Muslims, Jews, and other minorities in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The history of the Ustashe dates back to the German occupation of Yugoslavia during the war.
The remaining part of Croatia together with Bosnia-Hercegovina was made into "the independent state of Croatia," which was, in theory, a kingdom to be ruled by an Italian Prince, the Duke of Spoleto.
www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/Ustashe.html   (294 words)

  
  Vatican Sued for Looting Nazi Gold Under CIA, MI Permission: The Lawsuit Against the Vatican and the CIA
According to Loftus, much of the postwar Ustashe and Vatican activity was cloaked in the guise of anti-Communist activities and was encouraged or actively sponsored initially by British Intelligence and later the CIA and in particular Alan Dulles and James Jesus Angleton.
But, unlike other ex-Nazis, the Ustashe did not lose their fascist ideology, instead they openly reestablished their Nazi party in Buenos Aires and by 1956 were beginning a new campaign of terror which ultimately reached the United States in the 1970s and 1980s resulting in hijackings, bombings, and murders [13].
The Ustashe treasury soon followed Pavelic to Buenos Aires and the Ustashe were reconstituted in 1956 as the Croatian Liberation Movement (HOP), establishing an effective government (recognized as a legitimate government by several countries including Taiwan and Paraguay) in exile with a terrorist arm the HVO [29].
www.newsinsider.org /editorials/Vatican_CIA.html   (2965 words)

  
 News @ Serbian Unity Congress | Tied up in the Rat Lines, Haaretz, January 18, 2006
The Ustashe was founded in 1929 as a Croatian nationalist movement with a deep connection to Catholicism.
Ustashe leaders declared they would slaughter a third of the Serb population in Croatia, deport a third and convert the remaining third from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism.
The Ustashe has continued to exist over the years and until the 1980s its operatives were involved in acts of terror against diplomats and other Yugoslav targets abroad.
news.serbianunity.net /bydate/2006/January_18/22.html   (1657 words)

  
 Vukovar - Introduction
These volunteers were called Ustashe, a name that would remain in history as the name of ruthless war criminals.
Thousands of young men volunteered to become Ustashe, not because they were pro-nazi oriented, but because they thought this was a new, Croatian army that would finally protect the interests of Croatian people.
Apart from Germans, Italians, Ustashe and partisans, another military group was present on the territory of former Yugoslavia.
www.geocities.com /tegetthoff66/vukovar/intro.html   (4043 words)

  
 Axis Allies
The Ustashe organized an armed insurgency against the Yugoslav government, and commenced with an assassination and bombing campaign.
The Ustashe took the opportunity, and on April 10, 1941, while the battles for Yugoslavia were still being waged, retired Colonel and secret Ustasha Slavko Kvaternik announced in Zagreb (Croatian capital) the formation of an "Independent State of Croatia" (Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, in the Croatian language - "NDH").
The Ustashe were highly motivated (mostly volunteers), and quickly earned a reputation for fanatical bravery, as well as brutality.
www.angelfire.com /nj/ww2/croatia.html   (937 words)

  
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The Ustashe was led by Ante Pavelic, the wartime dictator whose picture was plastered on walls in Split in preparation for the rally.
And state authorities have stood by as pro- Ustashe groups have dismantled or destroyed 2,964 of 4,073 monuments to those who died in the resistance struggle, according to veteran Partisan groups.
And while the Ustashe state may have been a Nazi puppet, it had as its stated aim the establishment of an independent Croatia, although it was forced by the Axis to turn over large parts of Croatia, including much of the Dalmatian coast, to the Italians.
www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/ustashereborn.html   (1031 words)

  
 The Review - CROATIA'S TRIAL
The letters were significant only for the fact that the "National Day" they were marking was celebrated by supporters of the Nazi collaborationist Ustashe while they ruled the World War II puppet state.
While it appears that this was not a deliberate attempt to "celebrate" a fascist regime, it is a reminder that Croatia is still coming to grips with the history of that state and the requirements of membership of the democratic family of nations.
The reaction of the other members of the Croatian community delegation highlighted the fact that his was the minority view, just as the judgment in the Sakic case emphasised that those who would see Ustashe commanders as national heroes are also not in control of the Croatian judiciary.
www.aijac.org.au /review/1999/2411/sakic.html   (797 words)

  
 The Original Butcher of the Balkans: Pavelic not Milosevic
Wherever the loyal Ustashe (Croatian Nazis) served Pavelic and Hitler, Orthodox Christian churches and Jewish synagogues were plundered and the property of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, Ukrainians and others were confiscated.
At such Ustashe ceremonies eternal hatred towards Serbs and others are sworn on a crucifix, knife, and a revolver.
Many Ustashe returned to Croatia in 1991 and have played a role in the ongoing hostilities in Herzegovina ensuring the continuation of a cycle violence that began in 1941 with Pavelic.
www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/butcher_balkins.htm   (656 words)

  
 The traditional regimes and the challenge of Nazism: Collaboration vs. resistance
Its head was Ante Pavelic, leader of the pre-war fascist Ustashe movement that was responsible for the assassination of King Alexander in 1934.
The Ustashe episode left a legacy of friction between Catholics and Orthodox, Croats and Serbs, Serbs and Muslims, and Croats and the Communist regime, tensions that contributed to a climate of mistrust in the post-1945 Yugoslav state.
Except in cases when local fascist groups were in power (the Croatian Ustashe, and the short periods when fascist puppet governments were in charge of Romania and Hungary), local Balkan regimes simply failed to pursue the killing of Jews with the same zeal that animated the Germans.
www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect19.htm   (3997 words)

  
 The Centre for Peace in the Balkans
Dorich, the son of a Serbian immigrant, recalled that dozens of his relatives were massacred by the Ustashe, a Croatian puppet government installed by the Nazis when they conquered the Balkans in the 1940s.
One 1946 memo on the Ustashe treasury said that "approximately 200 million Swiss Francs (about $47 million) were originally held in the Vatican for safe-keeping" before being moved to Spain and Argentina.
There the ex-strongman was supported by proceeds from the Ustashe treasury, which traveled the same route, according to a 1998 State Department investigation of assets stolen by Germans and their collaborators during World War II.
www.balkanpeace.org /index.php?index=article&articleid=9698   (1625 words)

  
 Tied up in the Rat Lines

- Haaretz - Israel News
The Vatican network was also used by leaders of the Ustashe - the nationalist Croatian Catholic movement that was active in Croatia and collaborated with the Nazi occupation.
The partisans, led by the Croat Communist Josip Broz Tito, and the Chetniks - Nationalist Serb royalists - fought the Ustashe.
They made contact with Nazis and with the Ustashe people and enlisted them in their service as agents, collaborators and informers, with the intention of forming a front against the Soviet spread into Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/670245.html   (1816 words)

  
 Holocaust Revealed
An example of this savage butchery happened in the village of Glina on May 14th 1941: hundreds of Serbs were brought to a church to attend an obligatory service of thanksgiving for the fascist state of Croatia.
Once the Serbs were inside, the Ustashe entered the Church armed with axes and knives.
At the end of the war, the Ustashe looted some $80 million from Yugoslavia, much of which was composed of gold coins.
www.holocaustrevealed.org /_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Yugoslavia/Yugoslavia-Croatia.htm   (3578 words)

  
 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 8fax1106.txt
Sakic is alleged to have worked from 1942-45 as a guard at the women's section of Stara Gradiska concentration camp, run by her husband when Croatia was under the Ustasha regime, allied to Hitler's Nazis.
Her brother was Maks Luburic, a leading figure in the Ustashe government and commander of Jasenovac camp, where tens of thousands of Jews, Serbs, anti-fascist Croats and gypsies died.
The charges against her are "torture, treating civilians inhumanely, measures of intimidation, terror and collective punishment of civilians in violation of international law," Hina news agency said.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/1998/11/8fax1106.html   (783 words)

  
 Three NY Times articles about the rebirth of Croatian fascism
The Ustashe was led by Ante Pavelic, the wartime dictator whose picture was plastered on walls in Split in preparation for the rally.
And while the Ustashe state may have been a Nazi puppet, it had as its stated aim the establishment of an independent Croatia, although it was forced by the Axis to turn over large parts of Croatia, including much of the Dalmatian coast, to the Italians.
The church, led during the war by Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac, was a prominent backer of the Ustashe regime.
emperors-clothes.com /archive/dynamited.htm   (3248 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary
When I visited Croatia three years ago, the book most prominently displayed in the leading bookstores of the capital city Zagreb was a new edition of the notorious anti-Semitic classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Next came the memoires of the World War II Croatian fascist Ustashe dictator Ante Pavelic, responsible for the organized genocide of Serbs, Jews and Romany (gypsies) that began in 1941, that is, even before the German Nazi "final solution".
However, if the Croatian fascists actually led, rather than followed, the German Nazis down the path of genocide, that doesn't mean they have forgotten their World War II benefactors.
www.zmag.org /ZSustainers/ZDaily/1999-09/26johnstone.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Open Letter to Branko Lustig   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He showed his ``loyalty to the Poglavnik" in the emigration to Madrid in 1949, when the Ustashe crimes were alread y known around the world, by composing an ode to Poglavnik's ISC.
For the Jewish community, the instances of Ustashe rehabilitation can hardly be ``marginal." Especially not for those Jews who survived the holocaust and who after returning to their homeland found out that they were left alone in this world, without a m other and a father, without brothers and sisters, without their children.
Ustashe ISC was just the first state to name the Cr oatian currency Kuna.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosta/ndh/ndh-trpimir.html   (1652 words)

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