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Benedict praised Stepinac as a model for having defended "true humanism" against both the communists and the Ustasha Nazi puppet regime that ruled Croatia during the war.
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The Ustasha, said the German-born pope, "seemed to fulfill the dream of autonomy and independence, but in reality it was an autonomy that was a lie because it was used by Hitler for his aims."
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The Ustasha, said the German-born pope, "seemed to fulfill the dream of autonomy and independence, but in reality it was an autonomy that was a lie because it was used by Hitler for his aims."
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Benedict praised Stepinac as a model for having defended "true humanism" against both the communists and the Ustasha Nazi puppet regime that ruled Croatia during the war.
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The Germans installed as the local Führer Ante Pavelić, the brutal chief of the Ustasha, the Croatian Fascist Party.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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The Ustasha apparently murdered them just as a brazen demonstration of their ruthlessness—and to intimidate not only the Jewish community but all Croatians.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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One of these escapees, a man named Cabiglio, provided Helma with an affidavit in 1947 stating that he had known Alois in Jasenovac, and it was his recollection that Alois had been bludgeoned to death by Ustasha guards, probably in the early autumn of 1942.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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And these men, women and children died not in gas chambers but one by one, felled by Ustasha guards wielding curved knives strapped to their wrists.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In April 1945 the thousand Serbs and Jews then remaining in Jasenovac rose in revolt, but the Ustasha guards shot 525 of them.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Soon people began disappearing, often picked up off the streets by Ustasha trucks, never to be seen again by their neighbors.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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