Description
The Case of Archbishop Stepinac is an historical indictment of Alojzije Stepinac, the wartime Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zagreb, based on documentation gathered by the Yugoslav War Crimes Commission. Far from being a victim of persecution, as the West and the Vatican claimed, Stepinac is revealed as a central conspirator in the violent terrorist destruction of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the rise of the fascist Ustaša regime.
The book discusses — in damning detail — how Stepinac played a leading role in legitimizing and administering the illegal nazi puppet state of Croatia. He publicly blessed the creation of the Independent State of Croatia while the Yugoslav Army was still resisting the Wehrmacht. His spiritual leadership determined a third of Serbs to be killed, another third forced into exile and the rest “converted” to Catholicism at gunpoint. Hundreds of thousands were tortured and massacred, including Croats who opposed fascism and tens of thousands of Jews.
Stepinac’s clergymen participated even more directly than he did. Priests became commanders, governors and executioners. The Archbishop issued pastoral letters calling for loyalty to the Ustaša regime, prayers for Pavelić’s birthday, and praise for Hitler’s “international sermons” of tanks and bombers against the Allies, and especially against valiant Russia. As one Croat-Catholic priest declared, “God has given us Dr. Ante Pavelić and moved Adolf Hitler to use his victorious troops.”
After the war, as the book attests, Stepinac continued to conspire in terrorist plots against the new Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, hoping the Western powers would impose its “civilization” by dropping atomic bombs on Belgrade and Moscow.
This volume is a book of evidence, often citing the voices of the indicted themselves. A devastating compilation of Catholic Church involvement in nazi-fascist genocide against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, it reveals the truth behind a man falsely cast as a martyr, and brings to light monstrous crimes committed in the name of Bog i Hrvati — God and the Croats.