Glina massacre

The Glina massacre on the night of May 12th to 13th, 1941 is particularly synonymous with the forced Catholicization of the Serbs in World War II . Here, members drove the fascist Ustasha militia in the town of Glina about 260 Serb civilians in a Serbian Orthodox Church , locked the doors, stabbed and shot into the crowd and then put the church on fire. The Serbs, who previously converted to Catholicism , were spared. Several waves of murders followed in late July / early August of the same year, in which a total of between 2,000 and 2,400 Serb civilians were murdered. Immediately after the massacre became known, the Roman Catholic Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac sent a protest letter to the Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić on May 14, 1941 .

Individual evidence

^ Philipp Ther: The dark side of the nation states: "Ethnic cleansing" in modern Europe . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht-Verlag, 1969, p. 144 .
^ Jozo Tomasevich: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration . Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca. 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3615-4 , pp. 398 .

[1] Philipp Ther: The dark side of the nation states: "Ethnic cleansing" in modern Europe . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht-Verlag, 1969, p. 144 .

[2] Jozo Tomasevich: War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration . Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca. 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3615-4 , pp. 398 .