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Fascism is alive and well in Croatia

JEWISH PRESS
Professor Howard L. Adelson

The Croatian government of Franjo Tudjman, the erstwhile supporter of Tito's communist regime and the current racist President of Fascist Croatia which parades itself as the successor of the Nazi-created Independent State of Croatia of World War II infamy, has embarked on a program of that of the Nazis in 1939. Croatia alone is responsible for the recent violent outburst of bloodshed in Slavonia. A truce was brokered by the UN after the bloody warfare OF 1990-1, and the Serbs, the true victims in the Bakans, observed it scrupulously.
The Croatian Fascist government, however, utilized the truce to rearm and to prepare for attacks against the Serbian peasants in Slavonia. In 1993, they attacked and murdered the Serbs along the Adriatic coast, and now they have attacked the Serbs in Slavonia. At the same time, the Bosnian Muslims have begun attacks against the Serbs in violation of the truce agreements that thay made under UN auspices. This is the result of the false policy of the embargo against the Serbia which was instituted upon the demand of the U.S. The bloody strugle in Yugoslavia has been exacerbated by that embargo. The Croats and the Bosnians have been encouraged by the embargo to attack the Serbs.
- Enourmous amounts of money are being expended in public relations campaigns to create a distorted picture denying the Croatian treachery and the resort to violence. Thousands of innocent Serbs have been forced to flee their homes in Slavonia to save their lives because of the "ethnic cleansing" by the Croatian Fascist army. If there has not been the same extensive butchery as occurred in 1991 and in 1993, it is because the vast majority of Serbs, knowing what to expect, fled for their very lives. Only those terrified Serbs who were too old or too feeble were left behind in the Sebian flight, and the number murdered by the Croats has not yet been counted.
Within the areas controlled by the Muslim Bosnians or the Croatian Fascist, Jews are also attempting to flee. There is no flight of Jews from the Serbian controlled areas of former Yugoslavia, only from the Bosnian and Croatian-controlled regions. Yugoslav Jews are aware that Bosnian Muslims provided troops for Nazi armies, and that the Croatian Ustashi, the spiritual founders of Tudjman Croatian Republic, participated in every way possible in the Holocaust.
Today Ustashi murderers are being rehabilitated and are being extolled as national heroes by Tudjman despite the fact that they were among the most brutal villains. Those villains killed Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, while conducting a religious war against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Judaism during the Second World War, in the name of "ethnic cleansing". Croatian cruelty during the Second World War beggars the imagination. It equalled that of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen in Soviet Union. They murdered innocent man, women and children with the utmost cruelty and without remorse, and now they compound the crime by attempting to excuse it. Indeed, they glory in their murderous conduct.
Franjo Tudjman stands convicted by the words of his own mouth and by his writings of being a vicious racists and anti-Semite. He is an unregenerate Fascist racist and monster. Franjo Tudjman is the inheritor of the infamy of Ante Pavelic, the Poglavnik or Fuhrer of the abominable Fascist Croatia created by the Axis after their conquest of gallant Yugoslavia.
For those who doubt the truth of the Ustashi atrocities, it is only necessary to read the horrendous accounts by Allan A. Ryan, Jr, entitled Quiet Neighbours. Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals in America, about the vile Croatian Minister of the Interior under Pavelic, the Ustashi leader Andrija Artukovic whom Ryan called the "Dean of Nazis" in this country. Additional information of unbeleivable cruelty may be gleaned from Vladimir Dedijers`s book The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican. The Croatian Massacre of Serbs During World War II.
The horrors of Jasenovac concentration camp must not be concealed. The blood of the hundreds of thousands who were tortured and murdered there cries out from the ground. Tudjman is trying to destroy all evidence that such a camp ever existed and is attempting to eliminate the graves of the martyrs. The Jewish-Serbian Friendship Society of America, a group composed largely of survivors of the persecution in Croatia and Bosnia, participated in the candlelight vigil in Chicago in commemoration of the murdered Serbs, Jews and Gypsies.
Serbian Orthodox priests and Orthodox Jewish rabbis prayed for the murdered innocents. This was organized by the newly created Jasenovac Memorial Committee. Members of that group participated in the Yom Hashoa March of Remembrance on April 30 and attended the memorial service at the Museum of Tolerance.
The Jewish-Serbian Friendship Society of America, located at 283 Trino Way, Pacific Palisades, California 90272, deserves support from all Jewish federations and charitable individuals. They are trying to keep the memory of the martyrs of Yugoslavia alive and to prevent a new seizure of power by the Croatian and Bosnian Fascists who want to resume persecution. We should be grateful to them for recalling the persecution and martyrdom of one of the most valuable Jewish communities of the pre-Holocaust world.
The current Croatian fascist regime is actively attempting to obscure or to belittle the murder of the Jews and Serbs. The president of the Jewish communities in Croatia, at the ceremony held in the Jewish communal center in Zagreb, condemned, in the strongest terms, the Croatian attempt to deny the Holocaust. Tudjman's Croatia, the successor of the murderous Ustashi Independent State of Croatia established under Pavelic and Artukovic, would like to erase the very memory of Jasenovac and the other concentration camps at Stara Gradiska, Koprivnica, Gospic, Jadovno, Kruscica, and on the Island of Pag.
Reborn Fascist Croatia, torn from the heart of Yugoslavia, is bloody reminder of the Nazi hatred of democratic pre-War Yugoslavia and Serbia. The Germans, led by Heinrich Genscher and Helmuth Kohl, played the leading role in the disintegration of Yugoslavia. That was a war aim of the Nazis during the Second World War. They achieved it in 1991. Americans must no longer be silent about the destruction of Yugoslavia. It was a crime to destroy the Yugoslav state which had a democratic tradition before the Nazi invasion. It was the Serbs who rose successfully in rebellion against the puppet, royal government that wanted to serve the Nazis. For that act, the Germans took vangeance, and Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to memorialize the Serbian heroism.
The fragmentation of Yugoslavia has been disaster that has resulted in rivers of blood being shed. Perhaps it is time to concede the failure of the destruction of Yugoslavia. Perhaps we should act to preserve the unity of the largest possible part of Yugoslavia. We might then restrain the atavistic brutality of the Croats Ustashi who are even now trying to erase the physical remains of Jasenovac camp where hundreds of thousands were brutally slaughtered.

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Serbs and Jews


JEWISH LITERATURE
While talking about the horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish literature tends to be ethnocentric. It is understandable to a certain degree. Still, when talking about suffering in Yugoslavia, all of the literature talks with one voice about "Serbs and Jews"... For Jews and Serbs the destiny was the same.
"Encyclopedia of The Holocaust"
In many volumes of this book one can find many references on suffering of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Just look for: Croatia, Serbia, Jasenovac, Pavelic, Hussein al-, ... In the chapter on Croatia it says: "THE USTASHA REGIME IN CROATIA, AND PARTICULARLY THIS DRIVE IN THE SUMMER OF 1941 TO EXTERMINATE AND DISPOSSESS THE SERBS, WAS ONE OF THE MOST HORRENDOUS EPISODES OF WORLD WAR II . THE MURDER METHODS APPLIED BY THE USTASHA WERE EXTRAORDINARILY PRIMITIVE AND SADISTIC."
(Professor) Martin Gilbert: "The Holocaust"
This historian, the official biographer of Winston Churchill says: "in Yugoslavia, Hitler had an ideological and physical ally in the Croat Ustashi movement..."
(Professor) Helen Fein: "Accounting for Genocide"
This renowned historian says:"[Already] by June 1941, signs on public establishments [in Nazi Independent State of Croatia] read, NO SERBS, JEWS, NOMADS, AND DOGS ALLOWED. She clearly states:"...Nonpartisan sources agree that mass genocide was authorized by the state of Croatia. They concur the state instigated, planned, and executed masses against the Serbian Orthodox minority ...and that the Catholic clergy approved, led, or failed to denounce these massacres."
(Professor) Raul Hilberg: "The Destruction of the European Jews"
This is probably the best known book on the Jewish holocaust. It consists of two large volumes.
Briefly, this is what Dr. Hilberg says: Since April 1941, Serbia was under German occupation. But proud Serbs could never stand oppression. Soon they started uprising. Unlike anywhere else in occupied Europe, angry Nazi Germans invented 1:100 formula. For every German soldier killed 100 civilian hostages would be executed. Jewish male population was first among the hostages. Croatian Ustashi then finished (by use of gas vans) Jewish women and children of Serbia. This is how German Nazi commander of occupied Serbia could brag that "Jewish question in Serbia was solved".
In Fascist-Catholic Independent State of Croatia, Croat fascists eagerly and bestially exterminate Serbs (in the first place), Jews and Gypsies. Not only did Nazi Croats surpassed Nazi Germans and Fascist Italians - they shocked them with the bestial methods they implemented. It was Fascist Italians that tried to stop Ustashi bloody bacchanalia.
(Professor) Susan Zuccotti:"The Italians and the Holocaust - Persecution, Rescue, Survival" (New York, 1987)
Dr. Nora Levin:"The Holocaust"
The author reminds us:"The Ustashi were fanatics bent on the destruction of both Serbs and Jews... [They] murdered and tortured Jews and Serbs in indescribably bestial fashion. One of the most notorious camps in Hitler's Europe, Jasenovac, was in Croatia. Here the Ustashi used primitive implements in putting their victims to death - knives, axes, hammers and other iron tools... One source estimates that 770,000 Serbs, 40,000 Gypsies and 20,000 Jews were done to death in the Jasenovac camp [alone]."
Michael R. Marrus: "The Holocaust in History"
While talking about the Nazi satellites, the author says:"The overall level of violence was highest in Croatia, where Pavelic's Ustasha movement devised the most thoroughly totalitarian state of any satellite and pursued a merciless, bloody assault on the country's two million Serbs..."
(Professor) Clive Ponting: "Armageddon"
This historian and politician says: "The greatest ethnic slaughter took place as Yugoslavia was carved up after the German invasion in April 1941. The creation of a separate Croatia ... controlled by the fascist, Catholic, extremist Ustasha movement was the catalyst for the tragedy... Now, historic Croatia was expanded to include Bosnia-Herzegovina and other teritories, and the Ustasha were left ... to govern a population of nearly 7 million people, of whom about half were Croats, just over 2 million were Serbs, about 750,000 were Muslims, and small numbers were Protestants and Jews.... The Minister of Education, Mile Budak, made clear the Ustasha aims: "Our new Croatia will get rid of all Serbs in our midst in order to become one hundred percent Catholic within ten years." He spoke of killing a third of the Serbs, converting a third, and expelling the remainder. The leader of the Ustasha, Ante Pavelic, said,"A good Ustasha is one who can use his knife to cut a child from the womb of its mother." (end quote).
Dr. Ronnie S. Landau: "The Nazi Holocaust"
In Yugoslav Croatia, too, there is evidence that officials of the Orthodox Church [that is - the Serbs] pleaded with the authorities [that is to the Nazi Croats - Ustashi] to curtail the vicious treatment meted out to both Orthodox Serbs and Jews.
Major Richard L. Felman
One of more than 500 American Airmen rescued by the Serbs during WWII says: "Many Serbs risked their lives during World War II to save countless Jews from Nazi death camps. This is something we can never forget and for which I and The Jewish People will always be grateful."
Gottlieb Hlinko:"Kaddish in the Serbian Forest" -"The Massacre of European Jewry: An Antology" (Israel: Kibbutz Merchavia, 1963)

JEWISH REACTION TO THE CURRENT EVENTS
Some Jews still remember...
They shared our fate
"As Jews, we do indeed have a historical obligation to the Serbs" says Mr. Joseph Lapid, a columnist and editorial writer for"Ma'ariv" a leading Hebrew daily.
\'Eden\' of Sarajevo disappeared during WWII
Says Dr. Alfred Lipson, a Senior Researcher at Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Bayside, N.Y.
Serbs, Jews and Bosnia
Professor John Ranz, Chairperson Survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp reminds us of the basic history of the region.
A plan bad to the bone
Dr. Reich, the Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington protests Croatian plan to mix the bones of the Holocaust's victims in Croatia with those of its perpetrators.
Fascism is alive and well in Croatia
Professor Howard L. Adelson says "Today Ustashi murderers are being rehabilitated and are being extolled as national heroes by Tudjman despite the fact that they were among the most brutal villains [of WWII]."
The Serbian soldiers - utterly truthful and honorable
...says Herb Brin, the oldest working American journalist and adds: "the decision to bomb the Serb position in Bosnia breaks my heart".
U.S. Jews and the Balkan Situation
Mr. Alvin Dorfman and Mrs. Heather Cottin explain how major Jewish organizations got to spread government anti-Serb propaganda.
Shame, shame, shame!
Charley Reese: "No sin blots American politics today more than the betrayal of the Serbs. No one ought to be more ashamed of U.S. treatment of the Serbs than American Jews."
Jewish motives
Dr. Yohanan Ramati, the Director of The Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence explains mentality of diaspora Jews. How did they alow to be duped.
An open letter to the American Jewish Commitee
Mr. Danon Cadik, the chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, et. al., pleads for justice.
Set your records straight!
Mr. Jasa Almuli, past President of the Jewish Community of Belgrade and past Vice-President of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, pleads for truth.
The Serbs had for ever won a place in the hearts of the Jews
"We the surviving Jews of Serbia have for them respect and understanding. We know that the basic motive of their recent rebellion in secessionist Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegovina were their distrust and deep apprehension after they have been slaughtered in the Nazi era by the Croat Ustashas and Muslim SS..." says Dr. Aleksandar Mosic, Former Deputy President, Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia.
Serbs are our brothers in soul
"A media Auschwitz, was perpetrated on the Serbian people! The Serbs were dehumanized and portrayed as monsters exactly as the Jews were portrayed through centuries. Do not participate in persecution of the Serbs. They are our brothers. They are people who share the same destiny with us, the Jewish people." says Professor and composer Enriko Josif.
60 Minutes...more yellow journalism on Bosnia!
An open letter by Mrs. Sandy Marquette a Jew from Chicago.
The European Hoodlum Democracy Will Not Break the Serbs
Dr. Klara Mandic, a senior Belgrade Jewish community leader explains the Serbian motives.
America in the Eye of a Hurricane
Dr. Henry Kissinger reminds us that Bosnia had never been an independent state and warns us that long American tradition of support to self-determination has been betrayed.

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We are pleased to announce that one of our articles got published in the influential Israeli periodical Arutz Sheva.
We, Serbian-American editors of Srpska Mreza insist on strengthening History-long good relationship between Serbian and Jewish people. Our bond is a strong one. For centuries, the suffering of our two peoples is the same. Our enemies are the same. Intolerance, racism, Nazis and Islam fundamentalists are our common enemy. Mass graves where Jews and Serbs are buried together stretch all across ex-Yugoslavia and are the proof of our common suffering and our eternal bond.
It is our intention to warn all people of good will about the undying danger of Nazism and Islam fanaticism. It is also our intention to educate all other peoples about the trickery the Western powers implemented in order to destroy Yugoslavia, because it was these powers and their endless imperial greed that brought misery and destruction to multi-ethnic Yugoslavia. While pretending to be concerned about peace and human rights it was the Western powers who organized and supported Nazi and Islam fundamentalist forces in their act of destruction.

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