Vatician suspected in respect to Nazi Gold

The "Scarlet Pimpernel" of numerous fugitive war criminals and arguably the most important Ustase leader after 1945. From Rome, he supervised the "Ratline" which rescued most Ustase political leaders from arrest and transported them to countries which offered fascists a safe haven.

Studied theology after a higher education in Sarajevo and Vienna, later becoming professor of the subject at Zagreb University. Also studied at the Papal Oriental Institute in Rome. After working at Vatican Archives, became secretary to Archbishop of Sarajevo Ivan Saric, a virulent Croat nationalist and early supporter of the Ustase. After formation of the Independent State of Croatia, became an officer in the Ustase as well as a priest, and participated in brutal cleansing operations against Serbs in the Kozara region. As a high official in the Ministry for Internal Colonization, responsible for seizing assets of murdered or expelled Serbs, Jews and Roma and reallocating land among Croat and Muslim settlers in Bosnia as well as Slovene settlers purged from the enlarged German Reich.

Rest of link.....

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All documents...

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Reasons for above documentation to have been publicized as a result of freedom of information act.

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[Edited on 26-10-2003 by Toltec]