The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II [Hardcover]

Vladimir Dedijer (Author), Harvey Kendall (Translator)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German, Serbo-Croation

Product Details

• Hardcover: 444 pages
• Publisher: Prometheus Books; First edition (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879757523
• ISBN-13: 978-0879757526
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #810,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > History > Europe > Croatia

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37 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enrages non-thinkers, horrifies everyone else.., February 17, 2005

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Lee V. Douglas (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II (Hardcover)

I have been told by some that the book is a lie, that the research is a fabrication and that they do not need a sedative when told about it. These people do not read the book. They do not have to; they KNOW.

More informed people read the book and are horrified, as should we all be, as we are when we read about the Inquisition. The difference is that the Inquisition is at a safe chronological distance, while this book is uncomfortably close to us.

Dedijer's research is impeccable, as are his credentials. The events described were widely known before the book was written, but a shame-faced newer generation of ecclesiastics prefers to suppress any Nazi connection. The shame-facedness is good, the suppression is not. The book is necessary.

The book is necessary in order partially to understand the intense hatred between Serbs and Croats and hence some of the events that are shaking that part of the world today. It is necessary to understand history, e.g. the Latin church's desire to keep Croatia catholic as a buffer between Rome and the Orthodox churches. It is necessary to a better understanding of the Latin church.

Heavy and distasteful reading, as bad as a detailed book about Auschwitz. Do not enter it lightly.

The library of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has four copies of this book on its shelves.

40 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Never to be forgotten, September 27, 2005

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Luis Ivan Garcia (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II (Hardcover)

I never wrote an review before but i couldnt stop myself now.After reading some of the 1 star reviews i was bursting with anger! It certanly seems that Croatians (only they could rate this brilliant work with 1 star) are trying to discredit this book and reduce its star rating, thinking that in that way somehow they would be able to hide their dark and evil past from a public spotlight. It is so clear and obvious that most of them have never even read this book, they have nothing to say about substance, but they are rather inventing fairytales about author, reducing numbers of victims by quoting only "Croatian sources" or blaming "everything on Serbian propaganda". So, as a Spanish Catholic, who has served 3 years in UN peacekeeping force in Balkans i will tell you that this book is extraordinary! Author is not a "Serb communist" but rather a Yugoslav Jew, greatly respected all over the world.He was a visiting professor of history at Cornell, Brandeis, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. He was also a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and president of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal of Human Rights in the Federal German Republic.
Then, this book was not writen recently, but rather couple of decades before Civil War in Yugoslavia broke out, so it has NOTHING TO DO with any kind of propaganda. And numbers are, as somebody already said here, much more reduced than increased. This is a quote from Simon Wiesenthal site:
" JASENOVAC: The largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia. It was set up in 1941 and functioned until 1945.Some 600,000 people were murdered there. In 1945, the remaining prisoners were killed and the camp was blown up to hide the evidence of mass murder."(http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t034/t03448.html)
And if you can not belive that Vatican is not so much involved in Croatian affairs even today -please check this: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/20/wponte20.xml (Vatican accused of shielding Croatian war criminal)
So once you get this book and start reading you will see how indisputable it is. And you will change your view and opinion on present situation in Balkans, as we all did after reading it.This book is truly a very rare and precious work on holocaust in Balkans. And if you want more- check some of the list on amazon that follow this book.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The hidden genocide, July 5, 2006

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T. Milko "fact finder" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II (Hardcover)

This book is about a secret episode of the 20th century history.
The genocide of serbian populace in the Independant State of Croatia was part of the hidden agenda of the Vatican. The leaders of the horrendous massacres were often members of the croatian clergy and fascit-clericals leaders. very documented with shocking pictures.