From: simic@pollux.ccsf.caltech.edu (Petar Simic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Irony continues in our history
Date: 13 Aug 92 06:28:56 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena


	Josip Loncaric writes:

 >>...(4) Mr. Simic conveniently forgets that the Holocaust in former
    Yugoslavia was perpetrated by ALL Nazi puppets, including Serbia,
    which had the audacity to celebrate reaching "judenfrei" status
    by printing anti-semitic stamps in 1942.  He would have you believe
    that the Holocaust happened only in Croatia, but this was a crime
    of continent-wide proportions, and Serbia has participated in it
    with equal cruelty, by exterminating almost all of its Jewish
    population.  This is ugly history but Mr. Simic likes to
    skip the parts which are not useful to him.

<<

	This comment is one example of how far even some educated Croats of
 our time would go in their self-hypnotic denial and revisionisam of the 
 Holocaust history.  

 	Serbia was occupied by the Nazies the way, for example, France was, 
 and Nazies had to do most of the killings in Serbia. The anti-fascist
 resistance, however, in Serbia was so fierce that for some time Nazies had
 to introduce 100 (Serbian civilians) for 1 (German solder) rule - for each
 killed German, hundred  Serbs to be executed. The well known example is
 Kragujevac (Serbian town of 50,000, at a time) where in one day (21 October
 43) Germans killed 7,000 civilians including the one whole class of the kids
 taken from the school (gimnasium) together with their teachers.

	On the other hand, Croats runed their own Independent Croatian State 
 (NDH), they had their own and rather numerous fascistic army (ustashas)
 members of which fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Germans in as remote
 places as Russia, they had their publicly proclaimed policy of exterminating
 Serbs and Jews, and they had highly efficient state runed death-camps in 
 which systematic extermination of civilians (just because they are Serbs or 
 Jews) took place. Not by Gernmans, but, by Croats. Any credible historic
 document about the Holocaust in this region will testify to this; and much
 more, which I hope Josip will spear me from digging out. 

 	Here is what happened as far as who was in control in various
 parts of Yugoslavia (quote from the book by the French historian,
 Edmond Paris, "Genocide In Satellite Croatia"):

	"...On April 6, German army attacked Yugoslavia from several directions,
 while the German air force bombed Belgrade and other Serbian cities
 mercilessly.
	Many members of the minority groups sided with the enemy. The army's
 Croatian contingent refused to fight...
	Yugoslavia was partitioned, and the largest portition, roughly one
 half of the country was proclaimed an independent state by the Croatians.
 Whole provinces of Yugoslavian territory were swallowed by its neighbors,
 Austria, Italy, Albania, Bulgaria. Only a small fraction was left to
 Serbia, which fell to the Germans.
 	The newly-created Croatian state was made up of nearly half 
 non-Croatians, Serbians, Jews and Gypsies, who were declared extra-legal
 citizens. Within four years, Croatian Fascist had exterminated some one
 million of these "citizens" ..."

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	Sincerely,
	Petar.