Glaise von Horstenau on the Ustase Concentration Camps
From a document authored by the German Plenipotentiary General in Croatia, General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau. Glaise von Horstenau worked with most of the Ustase leaders and detested them. His reports critical of the Ustase sent to Berlin were for the most part ignored.

 

We now went into the concentration camp in a converted factory. Frightful conditions. Few men, many women, and children, without sufficient clothing, sleeping on stone at night, pining away, wailing and crying. A camp commandant - in spite of the later, favorable judgment of the Poglavnik - a rogue; I ignored him but instead told my Ustase guide: "This is enough to make you puke."

And then worst of all: a room along whose walls, lying on straw which had just been laid down because of my inspection, something like fifty naked children, half of them dead, the other half dying. One should not forget that the inventors of the KZ were the British in the Boer War. However, such places have reached their peak of abomination here in Croatia, under a Poglavnik installed by us. The most wicked of all must be Jasenovac, where no ordinary mortal is allowed to peer in.

 

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Title: Letter: Glaise von Horstenau on the Ustase Concentration Camps
Source: Glaise von Horstenau, Gen. Edmund. En General in Zweilicht: Die Erinnerungen von Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, (Peter Broucek, ed.); vol 3, p. 167.
Date: Added: October 2002