“Nazi Germany is no more,” replied Mrs. Roosevelt. “The Catholic Church is still here with us. More powerful than ever. With her own Press and the World Press at her bidding. Anything published about the atrocities in the future will not be believed. . .”

Eleanor Roosevelt knew of the Vatican’s involvement in genocide in the Balkans during World War II.  FDR likewise expressed horror at the atrocities taking place in Yugoslavia perpetrated by the fascist clerical state of Croatia (NDH) most notably against the Orthodox Christian Serbian people, but also against the Roma and the Jews.  And yet nothing was done to stop the murder of hundreds of thousands of Serbs in Balkans. The massive, grisly slaughter continued unabated.

Ironically it was the Serbian people who defied Nazi Germany, revolted against the signing of the Tripartate Pact by the Serbian Regent,  eventually holding up no less than 30 German tank divisions as a part of the guerilla Partisan fighters led by Tito.  All the rest, the Bosnian Muslims, the Roman Catholic Croats, the Muslim Albanians-became allies of Nazi Germany. Aggressively incited by Roman Catholic and Muslim clergy, they enthusiastically aided the genocidal effort to round up and slaughter Jews, Serbs, and Roma: The Catholic Croats were responsible for some of the worst, most horrifying atrocities of Holocaust.  Muslim Bosnians and Albanians each established Nazi SS divisions.

Germany, though, would have its revenge when the United States–the Clinton White House–would help it win the war it had lost in the Balkans, destroying the Partisan nation of Yugoslavia that had successfully thwarted its imperialist ambitions in Eastern Europe.  It was a crucial part of a much larger campaign that continues today.

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The Vatican Role in the Ustasha Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia 

When did the US government learn of the massacres and systematic genocide in the NDH? The US knew of the mass murders and genocide in the NDH in 1941. Yugoslav ambassador to the US Konstantin Fotich met with FDR on December 20, 1941 and informed him of the massacres in the NDH. Fotich had sent a memorandum to FDR on December 5 which described the massacres with a request that he be allowed to present further documentation and support. According to Fotich, on August 19, 1941, the chief of the Balkans desk of the US State Department had given him a report on the NDH’s “comprehensive policy of extermination of the Serbian race in the Independent State of Croatia”. (19) FDR was “deeply shocked by the atrocities perpetrated against the Serbs”. He expressed to Fotich “his great sympathy” for the Serbs. FDR “spoke with admiration of the resistance”. He told him after the war “the Serbs will rise again as a great people.” (20)

From left, Andrija Artukovic, the Interior Minister of the NDH, Vatican Legate Ramiro Marcone, and Zagreb Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac, at an Ustasha ceremony.

Eleanor Roosevelt had also learned of the mass murders and atrocities in the NDH in 1941-42. (21) The author Avro Manhattan met Eleanor Roosevelt at a private dinner party in Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London in the late 1940s. At the time he was researching and writing his book on the Ustasha massacres in the NDH. In 1953, he published Terror Over Yugoslavia: The Threat to Europe, (London, UK: C.A. Watts, 1953). In 1986, he published The Vatican’s Holocaust: The sensational account of the most horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century (Springfield, MO: Ozark Books, 1986).

He asked her if she had ever heard of the massacres and atrocities in the NDH. She replied: “One of the worst, if not the worst, crimes of the war. I heard of them in the winter of 1941-2. Neither I nor my husband [FDR] at first believed them to be true.”

“I did not believe them either,” Manhattan told her. “I assumed them to be propaganda.”

“We thought the same,” replied Mrs. Roosevelt. “The Catholic lobby was the most successful at the White House for years.”

He asked her if she was familiar with Slovenian Roman Catholic author Louis Adamic. She replied that she was. Adamic had been one of the many who had persuaded her husband that the atrocity stories from Croatia had been concocted by the Nazi propaganda machine.

He inquired if she could explain why the Catholic atrocities were not as well known as the Nazi ones?

“Nazi Germany is no more,” replied Mrs. Roosevelt. “The Catholic Church is still here with us. More powerful than ever. With her own Press and the World Press at her bidding. Anything published about the atrocities in the future will not be believed. . .”

Manhattan then informed her that he was writing a book on the Vatican role in the atrocities in the NDH.

“Your book might convince a few,” she commented. “But what about the hundreds of millions already brainwashed by Catholic propaganda?”

Manhattan recalled: “A few years later, in 1953, when the book was eventually published, although two editions were sold within weeks, no part of the British or American Press dared even to mention it.” Adamic wrote that “the atrocities were all propaganda … to stir up anti-Catholicism…” […]

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