Fascist dictator of the WWII Independent State of Croatia (NDH) Ante Pavelic (left)
and Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia Stepinac in the early 1940's.
BELGRADE – A Croatian court has overturned a 1946 verdict against a Catholic cardinal who had been convicted of collaborating with the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime during World War II.
The Zagreb County Court on July 22 [2016] annulled the treason conviction against Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, saying he did not receive a fair trial.
Stepinac, who was archbishop of Zagreb at the time, was sentenced to 16 years in prison and forced labor. He died of thrombosis, under house arrest, aged 61.
Many Croatian Catholics see Stepinac as a hero who resisted communism and want him declared a saint.
In 1998, the late Pope John Paul II controversially beatified Stepinac, putting on the path to sainthood.
Critics accuse Stepinac of not doing enough to stop the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime killing tens of thousands of Jews, Serbs, and Roma.
http://inserbia.info/today/2016/07/croatia-overturns-conviction-of-alojzije-stepinac/
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Not tens of thousands! Over 750,000 Serbs were slaughtered!
ReplyDeleteEyewitnesses relate that Franciscan clergy were embedded with and sometimes led Ustasha death squads that collectively murdered 530,000 Orthodox Serbs 1941-1945. Stepinac was a Franciscan. He could have excommunicated the killers were he not sympathetic.
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