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Summary: Typical Serbian Propaganda and Orthodox Ideology
Review: After reading it not once but twice to figure out what the author was trying to focus on. I came to conclusion that its a typical Serbian Propaganda tool. Most of the facts have been altered and if you pay attention the number of Serbian victims stated in this book grows larger and larger as the reading goes on. The book is a compilation of fictional facts that were developed in former Yugoslavia durring the 50's and 60's in the height of Communisit rule. Durring the last 10 years the issues revolving around Jasenovac have come to light. Serbian photo editing of archives and the stories that were written about this matter have been uncovered and have come to be falsifications. This book is just a tool of the Serbs to fuel a hatred of Croatia and Bosnia peoples durring the 70's that lead to the wars in the 90's. Its hard to stomach bad history writing and propaganda that is stated in his book. I hope that the Serbian people could finaly realize the truth about this matter and realize the 700,000 victims is well exagerated and that the mixture of religous and political propaganada is not a good tool to use. Any person killed over nationality or religions is wrong also using peoples death to benifit your interest is also wrong. The 65,000 Serbians killed in Jasenovac is not condoned or justified but in no means close to the numbers stated in his book.
Hopefully the Serbian People will finally admit the Massacre of hundreds and thousands of Croats after the Second World War. Maybe Vladimir should research that topic.
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Summary: This book is a must!
Review: For any History lover and for all others, interested in Balkan history, holocaust and Vatican's relation to nazi programs, this book is obligatory reading. Written as a serious study, this book is full of original documents, letters and photos....YOU WILL BE TERRIFIED!
Recent survey in Italy showed that 12% of people belive that holocaust of Jews never happened. About same percentage in Germany belives the same...yet in Croatia number of people who belive that genocide against Serbs is exegerated or it did not happened at all is around 70%. And that is because Croats were never made to apologies or publicly acknowledge their terrible crimes and Catholic Church protected them, as it still does today....So when faced with books like this one, they go a long way to discredit it and often they haven't even read it! This book- and several others- should be part of elementary education in Croatia, like it is the case in Germany, Italy,Japan.....But, instead, subject of genocide against Serbs is never presented in its real nature.
Get this book, you will be delighted that you did.......
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Summary: Informative, in a way, but......................
Review: Going to keep this very brief. Found some things informative, unfortunately, many people are still daydreamers, and Dedijer is one of them. If somehow he did his research and investigating on a broader scale, you would find that he's figures are very imaginative, and increase by the day.
Save your money by NOT buying this book. There are better Science Fiction novels out there.And all this is coming from a Serb myself.
Where's the truth these days? Unfortunately, you will not get it from a Serb.
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Summary: Interesting Incite
Review: I found Vladimir Dedijer's book to be envaluable in enhancing my knowledge and understanding of history of the Balkans. It gives an good incite into terrible suffering of the Serbian people in the hands of the Nazi Croatians during WW 2. It gives grounding as to what the conflicts in the Yugoslavia in the past decade have been about. That coupled with Vatican involvement makes this a must read.
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Summary: The most serious study of Vatican and its role in Croatia
Review: This book is a masterpiece! It is a history that you cannot learn in your classrooms....Written in a serious manner, but using simple yet very precise language, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you like history, you will love this one..... It deals only with genuine documents, and already established facts. It is rich with authentic photographs and it uncovers all the "hidden" letters from Vatican to Pavelic. As catholic church was deeply involved in policy making in the INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA (Croatian FASICT state, ally of Hitler from 1941 to 1945), this book shows to which extent did it influence massacres of more than a million Serbs. As a Croat, who lives abroad, i am ashamed of the attempts to rewrite the history and hide past, on the part of the new Croatian government and some powerfull western lobbies. My grand father was, as most Croats during II World War, an ustasha (Croatian Fasict) and he DID terrible things in the name of Independent State of Croatia. He lived enough long to tell me what has been done to Serbs and Jews by us.He told me how brainwashed was whole country and that everybody had to follow the orders....And so did he... What was worrying for me was seeing history almost repeat itself! During 1990's my uncle and two aunts were expelled from Croatia, just because they were married to Serbs....Most of my friends in Croatia, of Serbian roots, were ethnically cleansed and today my motherland Croatia is almost ethnically pure country....Serbain villages were raised to the ground, and Croatian Serbs were not allowed to enter Croatia until recently....And they lived in Croatia since 16th century!
So, what Ante Pavelic and Nazi Croatia couldn't do and manage in 4 years (from 1941 to 1945), new state of Croatia (1991- ) finished it! This book tells you about infamous plan of Ante Pavelic (our Nazi leader during II W W) to exterminate Serbs and orthodox christianity from Croatia: of almost 2.5 million Serbs that lived in Croatia, one third was to be exterminated, one third expelled and one third had to be converted into Catholicism. This plan was actually made in Vatican and Pavelic himself was Vatican' man. Croatian clergy and Archbishop took active part in slaughter of close to 1 million Serbs and Jews, in Jasenovac (The Yugoslav Auschwitz ). Their crimes were never fully acknowledge in Yugoslavia, since Yugoslav leader-dictator Tito was a Croat and most of the ustashe and clergy were allowed to get away unpunished. We, Croats, never had to apologies to Serbs and Jews, we never had to pay anything towards damages and War Crimes (Germany, Japan and other satellite countries which sided with Hitler and lost the war are paying still today the war damages!) and this is why many of my fellow Croats are now trying to dispute the history itself! And with a help of Germany, Vatican and many other powerful western lobbies, they might manage to rewrite the history on the way that it suits them...I am so ashamed of my country, but even more of some of its sons......Read this book and you will see why.....
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Summary: Revealing
Review: This book is historical revisionism at its best. It contributes to the standard greater-Serb propaganda: all Serbs good, all Croats nazis. This line of reasoning is simply too naive. It is sad that Dedijer continues to publish "stats" from WW2 that are not substantiated by any serious historical sources. He should have consulted the Serbian scholar Kocovic who has dedicated his entire academic research in the area. Or the studies funded by the Jewish communities of Croatia. Both reveal similar numbers of victims that are nowhere near Dedijer guestimates. The book is a great read if you are into pure fiction.
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Summary: Hidden Holocaust
Review: This book is simply GREAT! It has what any serious research and study must have-lot of original material, such as letters, photos, documents, statements, testimonies......so if you looking for some cheap propaganda, this book is definitely not for you. It is the ULTIMATE research on Jasenovac, a Croatian Nazi concentration camp in which close to million Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and other non-catholics were massacred. You will be forgiven if you do not know anything about Jasenovac or you even never heard of it. Vatican made sure that you don't, as Catholic clergy was deeply involved in running of this camp, as it was in ruling whole of Independent State of Croatia. But if you dig deeper, go further than just learning your history from today's media and check the work of historians, academics, survivors, nazi hunters, or even visit the memorial centre in Jasenovac (which was recently vandalised by Croatian mob),you will discover that this is the most terrifying crime of W.W.II.
But what is so sad is that some of the Croats are trying to deny their own history and their reviews on this site are easy to recognise. Instead of talking about this masterpiece, they try to talk about everything else:they are trying to discredit the author (who is himself half Croat), Serbian resistance to Nazis in W.W.II, numbers of victims (which are widely available and are being much more reduced than increased)and they almost always try to glorify their own (dark) history and past.
So they will tell you that first resistance to Nazis was given by partisans in Croatia, which is a shameless lie......First resistance to Nazis was given by CHETNICS of General Draza Mihajlovic, some few months BEFORE PARTISANS WERE EVEN FOUNDED (check any serious history book and you will find that Mihajlovic was for this decorated with LEGION OF MERIT from president Truman and with CROIX DE GUERE from Charles De Gaule).And even this Parisians in Croatia, who did a bit later rise against Nazis, were mostly formed from Croatian Serbs from Krajina (around 85%, check leading historians, encyclopedias...). Those were same Serbs that were ruthlessly massacred in Jasenovac, although Serbs from all over Yugoslavia died there too....They lived in Krajina from 16th century and were given this land by Austro-Hungarian Emperor, in order to protect western borders of the Empire (and Western world) against Turks. Indeed, full name of Krajina is VOJNA KRAJINA, which means something like 'MILITARY REGION'. So these Serbs were known warriors, who for centuries protected the very same Croatia and Austria and were always having their own autonomy, independent from Croatian Parlament....Furthermore, they never had to pay any taxes, as Austrian Emperor considered them to be the most important asset and barrier in stopping the penetration of Turks into the Europe....This caused a centuries old jealousy in Croatia (towards these people-Serbs), which starts with Serbia's 14th century Empire (this empire was spread from today's Istanbul to Venice and included most of Croatia) and Serbia's glorious history (unlike Croats, Serbs didn't peacefully accept foreign occupation and they were fighting hard throughout centuries for their independence, which they got in mid 19th century, while Croats remained under Austro-Hungary until its collapse). This jealousy turned into hate during the W.W.I when Serbs were fighting the most powerful Empire in Europe (Austro-Hungary) and Croatians were forming the largest part of the Austrian army that attacked Serbia in 1914...Although heavily superior in numbers and military equipment, Croats and Austrians were defeated and Austrian general who led the invasion (who was Sloveno-Croat Austrian himself) committed suicide. Serbs were on the wining side in W.W.I (as they were in W.W.II, unlike Croats) and they lost by far the most of all nations in that war (officially around 30% of their POPULATION, but in real the number was even higher, as many were born in those times without ever being registered). This is important to know, in order to understand Croatian obssesion and jelousy towards Serbs, as this will lead to the genocide, during W.W.II. There is one more thing to know, in order to easily comprehend everything: Croats (and Slovenians) are Catholics and Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians are Orthodox Christians. This division goes back to Roman times, when Roman Empire split into Western and Eastern, Western being Catholic and Eastern Ortodox....The line of division is just about today's border od Serbia and Croatia....And for Centuries Catholic church was trying (as everywhere else in the world in those times) to CONVERT peoples of Balkans into Catholic religion (of course, often forcibly as it did most recently during Nazi Independent State of Croatia, in the W.W.II)
So, when Croatia became for the first time independent (Nazi state of Croatia from 1941-1945), the very same Serbs were massively exterminated, most of them in this concentration camp- JASENOVAC. The Cardinal Stepinac and Croatian Furher Pavelic, made an infamous plan where ' one third of Serbs in Croatia had to be CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM, one third had to be FORCIBLY EXPELLED and one third had to be EXTERMINATED'!
However, in this book you can find plenty of original letters between Cardinal Stepinac and Vatican (including Pope) from which you can see that this plan actually originated in Vatican itself. But not only letters are there...Speeches of Cardinal Stepinac and Ante Pavelic, as well as many other members of Croatian clergy who were widely involved in all crimes against Serbs, their photos and many other ORIGINAL and indisputable documents.... This book even quotes German generals who were 'astonished by Croatian barbarism' in dealing with Serbs (Jews were massively killed in German Concentration camps, but where never exposed to the level of TORTURE as Serbs were in Jasenovac!). It also quotes infamous Max Luburic, the commander of Jasenovac camp, who openly boasted that they 'killed more Serbs in this camp for 4 years, than Turks did for 500 in whole of Serbia'. But it is not just how many were killed, but rather HOW they were killed! It is just very hard to get an idea, until you read one of the books on this subject or do some research on it!
Author remains objective at all times and to be fare, there are very few of his own conclusions as he states mostly facts and presents vast amount of material, which has been already established and available (as i mentioned before).
So all you have to do is READ THIS BOOK (while it is still available, as many others on this subject are going "out of print", like the most famous one from BBC's and W.W.II RADIO FREE EUROPE's Avro Manhattan, " THE VATICAN HOLOCAUST"- last printed in 1988). And do not pay attention to those who will rate this encyclopaedia of Croatian holocaust against Serbs with only one star! They are almost always some brainwashed young Croats...Or they are some radical Catholics, who have a problem in accepting the deeds of Catholic Church in the past (well or even now, as Pope beatified Cardinal Stepinac in 1998!!!)
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Summary: Croatian Shame
Review: This book sheds much needed light on a poorly understood chapter of Holocaust history. The genocide which took place in WWII Nazi Croatia was characterized by extreme brutality and hate against the pro-Allied Serbs. More than 700,000 died along with most of Croatia's small Jewish community. Croatia, with its newly won independence must confront its Nazi past and its horrific genocide against the Serbs in order to grow as a nation - rather than continuing with its crude Holocaust revisionism. A must book which should be in every Croat school and library.
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Summary: A must-read book
Review: This is a must-read book for everybody really interested in the history of Balkans in WWII.Croatian Pro-Nazi regime slaughtered and tortured more than 750 000 thousands innocent Serbs,Jews,Gipsies and anti-nazi Croats.Who ever on these manipulates with the number of dead Serbs in Jasenovac putting it at 65,000 should be ashamed,for falsification of historical facts will never erase the stain from the people who defend this holocaust against the Serbs.One of the reviewers wrote that there were only 700 000 Serbs in Croatia alone.Even his lies were proven true, still, what about Bosnia and its million Serbs, including my own great-grandfather killed in Jasenovac concentration camp? Who killed tens and hundreds of thousands of these innocent people who were guilty of being what they were?
Nobody normal should justify the crimes comitted by the Serbs in the war times,but to try to hide the terrible horrors of Jasenovac is to try to hide the Holocaust.
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Summary: The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican
Review: This is an important book for everyone to read, but especially for Catholics. After all, this is not something you will learn in CCD. Truth always has the ability to shine in the light, and expose the darkness of lies, hatred, and murder. As a baptized Byzantine Catholic, graduate student, and lover of truth, history, and philosophy this book receives my highest recommendation. Read the book, check out the references, follow the research, and by all means prove the facts for yourself. Heed this warning, "By their fruit you will recognize them. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit." Matt. 7:18. As a follow-up to this book, I would also recommend Avro Manhattan's "The Vatican's Holocaust". The evidence is strong and history records the truth. Do you really think God cares if it was 1,000,000, 700,000 or 350,000 that were murdered in the name of religion? Every single victim was loved by God. A Roman Catholic attempted cover-up will not work. Judgement Day is coming. Don't be left in the dark, "The Yugoslave Aushcwitz and the Vatican" deserves five big stars!
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