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Croazia: minacce neonaziste


Dopo l'avvio in Croazia, da parte del Centro Wiesenthal,
dell'operazione 'Ultima chance' per la cattura di alcuni criminali
ustascia tuttora presenti in quel paese (allegato 1), sono
immediatamente pervenute allo stesso centro minacce di morte da parte
di gruppi neonazisti (allegato 2).

Sulla continuita' tra vecchio e nuovo nazismo in Croazia segnaliamo ad
esempio il libro: "FUEHRER EX - Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi", di I.
Hasselbach e T. Reiss (allegato 3). Sulla storia del nazismo croato e
sulle complicita' del Vaticano vedi anche:

RATLINES - La guerra della Chiesa contro il comunismo: le reti di fuga
dei criminali di guerra nazisti e ustascia nel secondo dopoguerra, con
la copertura del Vaticano (sintesi dal libro di Mark Aarons e John
Loftus)

https://www.cnj.it/documentazione/ratlines.htm

IL FASCISMO E GLI USTASCIA - 1929-1941: Il separatismo croato in
Italia, di Pasquale Juso

http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2814

THE VATICAN'S HOLOCAUST - The sensational account of the most
horrifying religious massacre of the 20th century - By Avro Manhattan

http://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html

THE PAVELIC PAPERS

http://www.pavelicpapers.com/

CROATIAN NAZIS

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ustashi.html

THE BEATIFICATION OF ALOIZIJE STEPINAC

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/travels/documents/hf_jp-
ii_hom_03101998_croazia-beatification_en.html

HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH UNITED WITH LOCAL NAZIS TO RUN CROATIA DURING
WORLD WAR II

http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/stepinac1.htm

THE BLACK LEGION - A History of the 1st Ustasha Regiment, by Carl Savich

http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/049.shtml


--- allegato 1 ---


http://www.ansa.it/balcani/croazia/20040630214432996528.html

CROAZIA: CACCIA CENTRO WIESENTHAL A DUE USTASCIA

(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 30 GIU - In Croazia vivono almeno due criminali di
guerra che nel Secondo conflitto mondiale si sono messi al servizio
della Germania nazista perseguitando ebrei, serbi e Rom. Lo ha detto
oggi a Zagabria Efraim Zuroff, direttore esecutivo del Centro Simon
Wiesenthal che da decenni da' la
caccia agli ex nazisti e ai loro collaboratori, secondo quanto ha
riferito l'agenzia di stampa Hina. Dando oggi il via in Croazia
all'operazione 'Ultima chance', Zuroff ha fatto il nome di Milivoj
Asner, sospettato di aver organizzato l'applicazione delle leggi
razziali e la deportazione di ebrei a Pozega, in Slavonia, all'indomani
dell' occupazione nazista del paese nel 1941. Asner, che ora ha 91
anni, era capo della polizia speciale degli ustascia, formazione
filonazista di Ante Pavelic portata al potere da Hitler e Mussolini.
Zuroff ha detto di aver consegnato alla magistratura croata alcune
prove contro Asner e di aspettarsi che adesso sia la Croazia a
procedere. Non ha invece voluto fornire alcun dettaglio sul secondo
sospettato. Negli ultimi giorni il Centro Simon Wiesenthal ha lanciato
la caccia ai criminali di guerra pubblicando annunci in cui si offrono
10.000 dollari per informazioni utili su ex nazisti e ustascia. Zuroff
ha anche riferito dell'incontro che stamani ha avuto con il presidente
croato Stipe Mesic, che ha dato il pieno appoggio all'operazione
'Ultima chance'. ''Lo scopo - ha aggiunto il dirigente del Centro
Wiesenthal - e' di portare i criminali nazisti davanti alla giustizia e
nel contempo non dare loro un attimo di tregua anche se sono in eta'
avanzata''. Nell'ambito dell'operazione il Centro Wiesenthal ha finora
- secondo Zuroff - ottenuto informazioni su 294 possibili criminali in
tutto il mondo. Il primo grande processo contro un gerarca ustascia in
Croazia ha portato nel 1999 a una condanna a 20 anni di Dinko Sakic,
comandante nel 1944 del campo di concentramento di Jasenovac,
soprannominato la ''Auschwitz croata'. (ANSA). COR 30/06/2004 21:44


--- allegato 2 ---


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/455064.html

HAARETZ (ISRAEL)
Fri., July 23, 2004 Av 5, 5764

Wiesenthal: Croatian associates get death threats

From DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur)
23 July 2004

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said yesterday that their associates who
helped locate World War II crime suspects in Croatia have been
receiving death threats.

The center said "Operation Last Chance" - aimed at discovering WWII
crime suspects - would continue in Croatia despite the death threats
against the project's organizers in the past few weeks. "If anything,
these threats only reinforce our intention to attempt to maximize the
prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Croatia," said the center's
director.

According to Zuroff, death threats were sent to Zoran Pusic, president
of the Civic Committee for Human Rights, Croatian Justice Minister
Vesna Skare Ozbolt, and other public figures. A Croatian organization
called the Anti-Jewish Movement warned that if any Croat was arrested,
jailed, or harmed as a result of the Operation, the group would "begin
murdering Croatian Jews."


--- allegato 3 ---


http://www.srpska-mreza.com/Croatia/Nazi_neo.html

NEW BOOK: "FUEHRER EX"

Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi

INGO HASSELBACH
WITH TOM REISS

Chatto & Windus, London

Copyright @) 1996 by Ingo Hasselbach

Ingo Hasselbach has asserted his right under the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author
of this work.

First published in Great Britain in 1996 by
Chatto & Windus Limited
Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road,
London SW1V 2SA

Random House Australia (Pty) Limited
20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydney
New South Wales 2061, Australia

Random House New Zealand Limited
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Auckland 10, New Zealand
Random House South Africa (Pty) Limited
PO Box 337, Bergvlei, South Africa
Random House UK Limited Reg No. 954009

"Fuhrer Ex" grew from:
Die Abrechnung: Ein Neonazi steigt aus
by Ingo Hasselbach and Winfried Bonengel
published in Germany in 1993 by Aufbau Verlag GmbH

A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library

ISBN 0 7011 6536 7

Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Mackays of Chatham PLC, Chatham, Kent

Excerpts:
Pages 207-9:

(Quote:)
IN THE SPRING of 1991, the civil war in Croatia began. The Movement saw
it as the perfect chance to give those who wanted it real experience
killing people. Moreover, there was a historical tie: during World War
II Nazi Germany had played an active role in Yugoslav ethnic politics;
the Nazis had supported a puppet dictatorship in Croatia, the Ustashe,
that had built concentration camps in which mostly Serbs but also Jews
were killed.

*The current government in Croatia was reviving the tradition of the
Ustashe and in many other ways honoring the former Fascists. Units of
the Croatian Army were flying swastika flags, and many more were flying
the old Croatian Fascist symbol. Croatia had become the first European
government since World War II to openly embrace these symbols. ... It
was a neo-Nazi
dream come true.*

All of the West German neo-Nazis saw it as a wonderful opportunity, but
Nero Reisz, the barking anti-Semite from Hesse, was particularly
pleased. The problem for him was that there weren't enough Jews being
killed. But Serbs would do.

A system was set up whereby potential recruits for Croatia were first
trained in paramilitary camps in Germany, then passed on to middlemen
who were responsible for arranging their transport, clothing, and food
on the way to the front.

The way it worked was first through a word-of-mouth network. We had to
be careful about doing any advertising because hiring mercenaries was
strictly illegal in the Federal Republic. It was simply known in the
scene that you could go to Croatia, if fighting was your trip, and that
in Berlin I was one of the contacts. The other main contact people in
Berlin were Arnulf Priem and Oliver Schweigert. Once we'd checked out
recruits to make sure they weren't spies, we took them to a
paramilitary camp to get tested and trained. We were mainly interested
in whether they were physically fit to go down there. Mental fitness
didn't interest us much.

I knew one guy from the GDR who'd been loosely involved in the Movement
for about a year and then went down to Croatia because it was a chance
to kill Communists, i.e., the Serbs. He wasn't even much of a neo-Nazi,
really. He simply hated the Stasi, who'd tortured him in jail, and was
half crazy to get some revenge on anyone for his suffering. He had
shoulder-length hair, like a hippie, and hardly any sense of purpose at
all. He just wanted a chance to kill "Communists", and he got it in
Croatia. In a documentary some television team made at the front, he
was interviewed and he talked about how many Serbs he'd killed and how
much he'd learned about weapons. Less than a year later, he was killed
himself.

But the more sane and careful ones came back after a few months or a
year with valuable training in weapons and explosives. They'd of course
also learned what it was like to kill people. (Many stayed down there,
living in the hills, constantly involved in skirmishes no one ever
heard about, and are only now coming back into Germany and Austria and
forming the basis of the most militant and dangerous neo-Nazi cells.)

The effort to organize young German neo-Nazis and send them to Croatia
to fight and kill for the Ustashe - as the SS had once done - was
organized largely by the Movement representatives in Hesse, Bavaria,
and-for logistical reasons, as it was directly on the border with
Yugoslavia-Austria. The main man in charge in Germany was Nero Reisz.
He organized transport and took care that everyone got uniforms and
weapons. Then Michel Faci and his right-hand man, Nikolas, organized
most of the
Croatian neo-Nazi units, training both young Croatians and Germans
who'd come down for the ride. Faci trained Croatians as young as ten
years old to kill "Communists" while teaching them the basics of
Nazism. With his childish antics, he is good at making murder seem like
a game.

The neo-Nazis mostly fought independently from other units, as a
legionnaire corps. But they received arms and ammunition, even tanks,
from the Croatians.

From what I heard from men who came back, they fought against Serbs but
also against Bosnian Muslims, even though the Muslims had been in the
SS during World War II. They simply fought against whomever they could
get an excuse to kill. They kept track of how many Serbs they killed
and tried to collect per-body pay from the Croatians, but they actually
got hardly anything, apart from invaluable experience.

I NEVER WENT down there. Personally, I wouldn't have gone to Croatia
for anything in the world. I saw no reason to risk my neck for another
nation. I was only interested in the potential of getting
battle-hardened recruits back from the front. The actual fight in
Yugoslavia didn't interest me.

So I organized paramilitary camps and helped provide training, tested
the recruits with the help of a few sympathetic people from the
Bundeswehr. There was a lot of physical training-jogging, crawling,
scaling. Recruits learned how to use firearms and how to dismantle,
clean, and reassemble them. There was explosives training and practice
in throwing grenades and
using bazookas. We modeled our course on Bundeswehr training exercises
and what we could piece together about the old Waffen SS training with
the help of training manuals and the memories of our retired SS
supporters. But the basic source for our training was the West German
Federal Army.

(...)