The embodied devils
Who was Who in NDH?
Alojzije Stepinac;
The Head of Catholic Church of Croatia
Ante Starchevich
The most important ideologist and inspirator of the hate towards Serbs.
The author of the racial, national and religious superiority of Croats
over the Serbs.
He maintained that the Croatian people could not restore its national
State without prior extermination of the Serbian people. With Eugen
Kvaternik, he establish the Croatian Party of Right in 1861. Starcevic
predicated his policy on the so-called Croatian State right and called for
the creation of Greater Croatia from the Alps to the Prokletije Mountains.
Denying the political indIviduality of the Serbs in Croatia, Slavonia and
Dalmatia, he and his followers claimed that Serbs were "Orthodox" Croats.
He also thought of Croats as a superior and of Serbs as an inferior race.
The racial theory of Ante Starcevlc and his Frankovci successors resulted
in the Ustasa aftempts to create a pure Croatian and Catholic independent
State of Croatia in Worid War Two. Starcevic's statements that the Serbs
were a race of slaves and that, for this reason, they should be axed was
put into practice in the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945.
Slavko Kvaternik
Slavko Kvaternik (second from the left),
Vojskovodja
(marshal) of Pavelic's Independent State of Croatia (NDH) among high ranking German military
officers. He declared the Independence of Croatia on April 10, 1941, under the protection of the
German Army wich captured Zagreb on the same day. The Croatian paper, Danica, of Chicago,
Illinois, defending Kvaternik, wrote as follows on May 7, 1958:
"Poor martyred Kvaternik! We must
defend him for he gave his life for
our fatherland. We must defend his stand as a Fifth Columnist and as a
Collaborationist (Nazi). To attack him now is to follow the Parisan line.
He was a great (Ustashi) fighter for Croatia and no strangers are now
going to blacken his name."
Mile Budak
Devout Catholic, Dr. Mile Budak, Minister of Education and Cults, said on July 22, 1941:
"The movement of the Ustashi is based on religion. For minorities-Serbs, Jews and
Gypsies, we have three million bullets. We shall kill one part of the Serbs. We shall transport
another, and the rest of them will be forced to embrace the Roman Catholic religion.
Thus, our new Croatia will get rid of all Serbs in our midst in order to become one
hundred percent Catholic within ten years."
Andrija Artukovich
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