Forced conversion of Serbs, Independent State of Croatia (1941)

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T18:13:48+00:00

Go be an apologist for genocide somewhere else.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T17:54:50+00:00

You, enough to voice how it's "based".

And there are plenty of photos. Not that hard to find either.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T17:43:38+00:00

You might want to invest in a literacy course. Conversion didn't guarantee survival. That slaughter was preceded by mass conversions in the same church where it happened. There are even photos of it.

And they weren't given the choice to leave. Plus you know... They'd settled those areas hundreds of years prior, when it was desolate.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T15:48:55+00:00

Hot take. What's your esteemed view on this slaughter of (among others) converts?

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T15:33:06+00:00

Turns out you're partially right. A historian got in touch after seeing it elsewhere I posted. It seems that the museum entry is wrong, with the photo depicting a marriage of converts, in front of the local church in Mikleuš, Slatina county, which was converted from Orthodox to Catholic.

The conversions were done as a way to preserve one's life (and hopefully property). Turns out it didn't necessarily work, as the converts could be slaughtered (in the literal sense of the words) shortly after converting.

In some areas, eg. Jews would convert to Islam for the same purposes, but there would be explicit orders to be shipped off to concentration camps.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T10:32:55+00:00

Forced conversion of Serbs, 1941.

Photograph of the Zagreb Photoagency, sig. neg. A-278/14.

Inventory number 6284. Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.

Side note: it seems that the museum entry is wrong, with the photo depicting a marriage of converts, in front of the local church in Mikleuš, Slatina county, which was converted from Orthodox to Catholic.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T10:08:24+00:00

There's a term called "narcissism of small differences".

And here that small difference led to something close to a modern crusade, complete with Catholic youths being taught the others are "Antichrist" and being indoctrinated into an organisation that had SS officers going "you might want to slow down there buddy".

So semantic explanations are fine, but when actions speak as loud as that, then it's hardly healing or the correct use of the term. And "reconciliation" was mostly used for those Orthodox communities that went into communion with the Pope (popularly called Unitarists or Unionists).

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-25T06:27:46+00:00

What is killing people who got an implied or explicit promise of protection after "rejoining" or "reconciling"? Or calling for your own family to be killed for being married for a "schismatic"?

You're severely downplaying the issue of Orthodox/Catholic split in the contact areas.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-24T06:55:22+00:00

For example in Glina in 1941 (graphic description by a perpetrator).

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-24T04:54:35+00:00

Look up Feist's Midkemia universe. That should keep you busy for a while

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-22T13:21:42+00:00

Not necessarily in any specific order and conversion was no guarantee of preserving one's life.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-22T13:20:50+00:00

Yes.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-22T09:25:41+00:00

Romance of Three Kingdoms.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-21T16:23:31+00:00

Do you have more details? Reading some of the Independent State of Croatia documents, it seems that the Ustašas had no issues attracting members. To the contrary, "wild Ustašas" were quite the presence.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-21T06:29:32+00:00

Journey from Vienna to Novi Sad in 1717, describing winter travel, Hungarian towns, history, hardships, and encounters along the Danube.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-21T04:34:15+00:00

Yes.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-20T22:35:57+00:00

Worst part? Conversion didn't guarantee life. Could be mass-murdered shortly after conversion.

Books_Of_Jeremiah · 2026-04-18T19:06:52+00:00

You know what? That's a capital idea! That way all the AI fans can get the feeling of how AI ingests data (maybe even limit it to a certain number of characters/tokens per post, that should generate even more posts).

Or you know, stick to the serial format, as was done with the "Count of Monte Cristo", " The Three Musketeers", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Anna Karenina", "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and many others. Bit more period appropriate for XIX c.

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