JASENOVAC: "WORSE THAN AUSCHWITZ" - Professor Gideon Greif - Holocaust Historian -2018

• JASENOVAC: "WORSE THAN AUSCHWITZ" - Professor Gideon Greif - Holocaust Historian
--- anywhere from minimum 700,000 to 1.4 million Serbians, Jews, and Gypsies were slaughtered in the most horrific and cruelest manner that made actual German Nazis cringe with the brutality of the atrocities at Jasenovac.
- (Professod Gideon Greif refers to an example that 800,000 Serbians, 40,000 Jews,

☆☆☆ "Extremely significant is the fact that the Ustasha introduced the final solution, even before the Germans did it (Greif, 2020b). The persecution of Jews, their deportation to the Jasenovac camps, the confiscation of their property and all the anti-Jewish steps were introduced earlier than in Germany, where the final solution started only in 1941. Jasenovac became the slaughterhouse of the Yugoslav Jews even though at that time Auschwitz was not yet a concentration camp (Lituchy, 2006)." ☆☆☆

• It was a time when hell rose up on earth not by demons but by Ustase (mostly Croatians and Muslims) who in the words of Hitler's envoy to the Balkans Edmund Glaise von Edmund described the Ustase camps as "Dante's inferno," "The peak of abomination" and "Enough to make a man wretch." Those words couldn't be more damning and they came from a German Nazi. Greif's research proves that this genocide was arguably the most brutal to ever happen. The Ustase were the only known people to operate death camps exclusively for children.

• Some say we should forgive but not forget. To them I say historian Srboljub Zivanovic's apt quote which is, "No one has the right to forgive someone on behalf of those whose silence is eternal.”

The [Guilty] must be held to account,...past and present.