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		 Eric Margolis <emargolis@lglobal.com>

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THE LAST NEST OF NAZIS IN EUROPE
by
Eric Margolis  12 Dec 1996



The days of Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who began the
Third Balkan War and fathered ethnic cleansing,  may be
numbered. 

Vast protests against the Milosevic dictatorship continue to
grow in Belgrade, while his former foreign allies - the US,
Britain and Greece - are distancing themselves.  The
regime's bulwark, Serbia's Army and secret police, have
reportedly split on continued support of Milosevic. He could
end up a second Ceausescu.

Milosevic's eventual fall would be a boon for long-
suffering Serbs, and the entire Balkans. A Serb protestor's
placard, with pictures of Milosevic, Saddam, and Castro -
entitled `Three of a Kind' - captured the moment nicely.  

While it's  always tempting to personify  a region's complex
problems in one diabolic figure, being rid of Milosevic
won't end a primary cause of enormous suffering and death in
the Balkans this century: the Serb nazi movement.

Wartime Nazi movements in  Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary and
Romania  have been amply studied.  Serbia's home-grown brand
of WWII nazism has not been - for three reasons. First, it hid
under the mantle of slav nationalism. Because Serb nazis were
anti-German, they were exempt from censure.  Second, Serbia was a
close, useful ally of Britain, France and Russia. Third,
Serb nazism has always been amorphous,  concealed in the
shadows, and linguistically unintelligible to outsiders. 

Serb slav nazism began around 1900 and flourished in the
1920's after the creation of unstable, multi-ethnic
Yugoslavia. Numerous influential Serb writers and academics,
notably Vaso Cubrilovic and Radivoje Pesic, proclaimed Serbs
racial supermen, and Serbia the true cradle of western
civilization. .

Serb nazis urged ethnic cleansing of all `racially inferior'
Hungarians, Croats, Jews, Albanians, Catholics and Muslims
from a purified Greater Serbia, stretching from Italy to the
Aegean. Some elements of the Serb Orthodox Church eagerly
cooperated - and still do -  with these ideas. 

Mother Theresa, an Albanian from southern Yugoslavia,  ended
up in Calcutta because her family was driven from its home
by Serb nazis in the 192O's during a campaign of ethnic
cleansing.  Back then, as  now,  Serb nazis warned of the
fertility of non-Serb women, and called for the mass
expulsion, extermination or sterilization of  `racial
inferiors.' 

The Serb slavo-nazi, Cubrilovic, wrote, `If Germany could
deport tens of thousands of Jews, the expulsion of a few
hundreds of thousands of Albanians would not lead to  a
world war.' Interestingly, his remark mirrors Hitler's
observation that since the world ignored the genocide of
Armenians during World War I, it would react similarly to
his planned extermination of Jews.

Milosevic rekindled Serb nazism after Tito had suppressed it
for two decades.  Serb paramilitary gangsters, like Arkan
and Seselj, who spearheaded ethnic cleansing and mass
murder,  are direct descendants of Hitler's brownshirt
thugs.  The Serb army - shades of the SS-  was ordered to
ethnically  cleanse Bosnia of `Muslim filth' on a `sacred
historic mission for the Motherland.'  

Serb nazis now denounce Milosevic for failing to accomplish
this goal.  A significant part of the opposition is made up of
nazis, or rightwing extremists.   Unless ripped out by the roots,
nazism may continue its grip on Serbia.

Nazism and fascism were thoroughly excised from Germany,
Italy and Japan.  It's time to do the same in Serbia to the
last nest of nazis in Europe.  Hopefully, democratic Serbs -
-Serbia's forgotten majority - will accomplish this long-overdue
task. They will need a great deal of active support from 
Europe -particularly when  Britain and Greece finally halt
their shameful support of Serb extremists.  

Canada's demands this week that capture and prosecution of
Bosnian Serb war criminals be vigorously pursued  - by
force, if necessary - are overdue and welcome.  Canada is
right to show zero tolerance to nazis like Karadzic and
Mladic. You don't fight nazism by trying 85 year-old men,
You do it by arresting and prosecuting today's reincarnated
nazis in the Balkans.

copyright   eric margolis 1996

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