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Croat Vandalizes Jewish School in Vienna

Jerusalem Post, Austria school vandalism ‘no surprise’, by Rachel Beitsch

A man in police custody admitted vandalizing a Jewish school in Vienna, an investigator said Monday.

The man, whose name has not been released, is probably a Croatian from Zagreb who came to Vienna as a tourist a week ago, said Andreas Krajcsy of the Vienna police’s section on state protection and anti-terrorism. Windows at the school were smashed early Sunday. He is suspected of smashing windows and damaging other objects inside the school.

Austrian authorities were sending a photo and fingerprints of the man to their Croatian counterparts to confirm his identity because he did not have a passport on him, Krajcsy said. Croatian authorities have already confirmed the existence of a person bearing the name given by the suspect.

“It was anti-Semitic. He told us he didn’t like Jews,” Krajcsy said.

Austria Protects Croatian Nazi War Criminals

Following the act of vandalism, Ephraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that it was not surprising “that events like this take place in a country that protects Croatian Nazi war criminals.”

He referred specifically to the case of Milivoj Asner, “a Croation Nazi war criminal living in Klagenfort whose extradition has been sought for over a year by the Croatian authorities who want to put him on trial for his role as the police chief of the city of Pozega during.”

The Austrians, he said, “refuse to send Asner back to Croatia despite the fact that he’s not an Austrian citizen and there is ostensibly no reason that they haven’t acceded to Croatian extradition request.”

He concluded by pointing out that Austria “has not successfully prosecuted Nazi war criminals in more than 30 years, and in that atmosphere of impunity, perhaps it’s not surprising that such terrible events take place.”

Ariel Muzicant, the head of Vienna’s Jewish Community, expressed shock and disbelief at the devastation. “One asks oneself however, what goes through the mind of a man who attacks a school and destroys so much,” Muzicant was quoted as saying.

He did not provide an estimate of the damage caused.

“We’re now in the process of putting everything in order,” he said.

Croatia Whitewashing its WWII Genocide Against Serbs Again

On the other hand, reporters-turned-lobbyists like Nicholas Wood will tell you Serbs are paranoid and like to “exegerate” the genocide of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies committed by the monstrous Croat Ustashas in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during the WWII, “for political reasons.”

In a recent article about the new museum in Jasenovac, the site of Croatian concentration camp which the German General Von Horstenau called “the most wicked of all (...) where no ordinary mortal is allowed to peer in,” Wood miraculously manages to avoid the single word that is at the very core of the subject he used two pages to cover: genocide.

Not surprisingly, this reporter/lobbyist remains conveniently blind to the fact that the new Croatian government, supposedly democratic, supposedly “trying to shed light on dark chapter in its history” (not what it really was -- organized, planned, open and celebrated genocide, but merely a “dark chapter” in otherwise spotless Croat history), is shamelessly revising and downplaying the number of its Jasenovac victims AGAIN.

The “new” Jasenovac museum puts the number of its victims at less then 70,000 -- over ten times less than Serbian Orthodox Church recorded, and almost ten times less than the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s records show. Both Nicholas Wood and Croats seem to be blissfully unaware that Croatian hero Petar Brzica has alone, singlehandedly, slit the throats of 1,360 Serbs in only one Jasenovac-night, thus winning a title of the King of Cut-Throats and the prize (a gold watch, a silver service, a roasted sucking pig and wine) in Ustasha competition of who will slaughter the largest number of Serbs during one night. Over 10 thousand of Serbs were slaughtered in that one night alone. To say that during the entire war no more than 69,842 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were killed in the worst Croatian slaughterhouse is offensive beyond words.

Not only is the new “museum” purposefully avoiding to even mention that the vast majority of Ustasha victims were of Serbian ethnicity and Eastern Orthodox faith, it also focuses on few personal stories of the survivors, erasing every trace of the horrendous cruelty and degradation (“the unspeakable swineishness,” as General Horstenau called it) Ustashas were notorious for, capable of making even the German stomachs turn.

To top it off, Wood is citing “museum’s” director, who had the audacity to boast of creating a politically correct-ed, sanitized version of a genocide “memorial,” while blaming the Serbs for remembering their dead, adding: “There is nothing here that can be used for political propaganda or hatred.”

What a bizarre, ludicrous, shameful statement! One would think the purpose of the memorial was to honor hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of a mass-slaughter during the WWII that took place at Jasenovac concentration camp, by (finally!) telling the truth: what went on there, why, to whom and by whom -- JUST TELL THE BLOODY TRUTH, THAT’S YOUR JOB, don’t talk to me about “political propaganda”!

This way, apart from the fact the “museum” itself is nothing more than a monument to Croat/Nazi propaganda, with the sole purpose of continuing the whitewashing of genocide of Serbs perpetrated by the Croat fascists in WWII; apart from the fact the Politically Correct-ed Jasenovac is just the latest Croatian Holocaust revision; apart from the fact this exhibition (showing nothing, blaming no one, honoring no one, hurting no one and disturbing no one’s digestion) serves only to advance Croatia’s bid to enter the (equally Nazi) EU... apart from all that, there really is nothing that can be used for “political propaganda” there whatsoever: there is nothing BUT (Croat) propaganda enshrined in the new Croatian “museum,” a mockery of a memorial and an insult to the memory of every single victim, butchered for no reason other than the fact they were not Roman Catholic Croats.

After visiting the Whitewashed Jasenovac, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, Ephraim Zuroff blasted the new monument to Croatian Propaganda:

“I saw an exhibition which was a big disappointment,” Efraim Zuroff wrote in an article published in the weekly Globus.

“To my disbelief, there was not a single photograph of the commanders of Jasenovac,” he said of the camp at which his organization [Simon Wiesenthal Center] estimates some 600,000 mostly Serbs and Jews were killed during World War II.

Zuroff said that any young visitors to the museum would “leave probably more confused then they were before” they visited an education center on atrocities committed at the camp by the Ustasha regime.

“In a museum dealing with nameless Ustasha (members), no individual can be made responsible,” said Zuroff.

“More importantly, it lacks materials or explanations about the development of the Ustasha ideology before the war -- hatred against Serbs and Antisemitism, which helped the spread of genocidal policy,” he added.

Then again, perhaps Croats and truth simply can’t be used together in the same sentence, regardless of which government comes to power.

P.S. The book about genocide Croat Ustashas have perpetrated in the fascist Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, The Vatican’s Holocaust by Avro Manhattan is available online in its entirety.