I am required by the Faith in which I believe and in that Faith that I preach, to "love" them. I am required to do this to all humankind. According to my belief that will receive their just rewards at the Parousia. That being said.... the Croats today, like the Germans today have little knowledge/understanding of what atrocities their (recent) forefathers committed against Orthodox and, to a lesser extent, Muslim peoples living in Eastern Croatia. NAZI records read that even the NAZIs were astounded at the hideous action perpetrated on non-Roman Catholic peoples.
I know that the Holocaust is taught in Germany and many grieve about what happened in the past, in Croatia, Dalmatia and (to as lesser degree) Slovenia the horrors of WWII is pushed under the carpet. Rome helped many Ustashe war criminals to flee Croatia, so as not to tried for their crimes
The German NAZIs wanted to wipe out certain peoples because they thought them to be inferior. The Ustashe wanted to forcefully convert non-Roman Catholics to the Church of Rome and would do anything to do this.... ANYTHING! And if the non Catholics wanted to remain non-Catholics, their fate cannot be put into words here.
The Germans have done their penance and while it is difficult, they remember. The Roman Catholic Slavs have yet to do so. Like the Turks in their denial of the slaughter of Armenians and Greeks during WWI, these people deny that the Ustashe and Bishops of the Roman Church personally perpetrated and while others tacitly approved of these war crimes.
During WWII, there were sweet little German ladies and polite German men, who knew what was going on, but somehow the magnitude of the horror over whelmed them and nothing was said... I am sure that these Dalmatians have memories, but the horrors of what the Ustashe perpetrated is more than some sane person can admit, or believe.
NAZI Catholics? Yes... and worse than any German NAZI.
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Date: 2006-06-02 04:07 pm (UTC)I know that the Holocaust is taught in Germany and many grieve about what happened in the past, in Croatia, Dalmatia and (to as lesser degree) Slovenia the horrors of WWII is pushed under the carpet. Rome helped many Ustashe war criminals to flee Croatia, so as not to tried for their crimes
The German NAZIs wanted to wipe out certain peoples because they thought them to be inferior. The Ustashe wanted to forcefully convert non-Roman Catholics to the Church of Rome and would do anything to do this.... ANYTHING! And if the non Catholics wanted to remain non-Catholics, their fate cannot be put into words here.
The Germans have done their penance and while it is difficult, they remember. The Roman Catholic Slavs have yet to do so. Like the Turks in their denial of the slaughter of Armenians and Greeks during WWI, these people deny that the Ustashe and Bishops of the Roman Church personally perpetrated and while others tacitly approved of these war crimes.
During WWII, there were sweet little German ladies and polite German men, who knew what was going on, but somehow the magnitude of the horror over whelmed them and nothing was said... I am sure that these Dalmatians have memories, but the horrors of what the Ustashe perpetrated is more than some sane person can admit, or believe.
NAZI Catholics? Yes... and worse than any German NAZI.