Alojzije Stepinac; The Head of Catholic Church of Croatia The Catholic Church of Croatia approved and frequently inspired all the Ustashas deeds. Its Cardinal, Alojzije Stepinac was never put on trial or prosecuted for that (after the WW2), in order not to alienate relations with the Vatican. Alojzije Stepinac visiting Ante Pavelich personaly, in another visit accompanied with the whole Croatian Episcopate, and with all them and with the Papal Legate Marcone.
The most important ideologist and inspirator of the hate towards Serbs. The author of the racial, national and religious superiority of Croats over the Serbs. He maintained that the Croatian people could not restore its national State without prior extermination of the Serbian people. With Eugen Kvaternik, he establish the Croatian Party of Right in 1861. Starcevic predicated his policy on the so-called Croatian State right and called for the creation of Greater Croatia from the Alps to the Prokletije Mountains. Denying the political indIviduality of the Serbs in Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, he and his followers claimed that Serbs were "Orthodox" Croats. He also thought of Croats as a superior and of Serbs as an inferior race. The racial theory of Ante Starcevlc and his Frankovci successors resulted in the Ustasa aftempts to create a pure Croatian and Catholic independent State of Croatia in Worid War Two. Starcevic's statements that the Serbs were a race of slaves and that, for this reason, they should be axed was put into practice in the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945.
Slavko Kvaternik (second from the left), Vojskovodja (marshal) of Pavelic's Independent State of Croatia (NDH) among high ranking German military officers. He declared the Independence of Croatia on April 10, 1941, under the protection of the German Army wich captured Zagreb on the same day. The Croatian paper, Danica, of Chicago, Illinois, defending Kvaternik, wrote as follows on May 7, 1958:
"Poor martyred Kvaternik! We must defend him for he gave his life for our fatherland. We must defend his stand as a Fifth Columnist and as a Collaborationist (Nazi). To attack him now is to follow the Parisan line. He was a great (Ustashi) fighter for Croatia and no strangers are now going to blacken his name."
Devout Catholic, Dr. Mile Budak, Minister of Education and Cults, said on July 22, 1941:
"The movement of the Ustashi is based on religion. For minorities-Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, we have three million bullets. We shall kill one part of the Serbs. We shall transport another, and the rest of them will be forced to embrace the Roman Catholic religion. Thus, our new Croatia will get rid of all Serbs in our midst in order to become one hundred percent Catholic within ten years."
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