Members of the Croatian fascist Ustaše laugh after murdering people in the Jasenovac concentration camp. Guards at Jasenovac got into “contests” over who could torture and kill the most prisoners the fastest. Using special knives called “Serb cutters”, they murdered hundreds within hours (1940s).

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  2. [The Ustaše](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e)

    [Jasenovac concentration camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp) was nicknamed “the Auschwitz of the Balkans” .

    The following statement is from Mile Friganović, who participated in one such “killing contest”:

    >”Franciscan Pero Brzica, Ante Zrinušić, Sipka and I waged a bet on who would slaughter more prisoners that night. The killing started and already after an hour I slaughtered much more than they did. It seemed to me that I was in seventh heaven. I had never felt such bliss in my life. And already after a few hours I slaughtered 1,100 people, while the others only managed to kill 300 to 400 each. And then, when I was experiencing the greatest ecstasy I noticed an elderly peasant standing and peacefully and calmly watching me slaughter my victims and them dying in the greatest pain. That look of his shook me: in the midst of the greatest ecstasy I suddenly froze and for some time couldn’t make a single move. And then I walked up to him and found out that he was some Vukasin [Mandrapa] from the village of Klepci near Capljina whose whole family had been killed, and who was sent to Jasenovac after having worked in the forests. He spoke this with incomprehensible peace which affected me more than the terrible cries around us. All at once I felt the wish to disrupt his peace with the most brutal torturing and, through his suffering, to restore my ecstasy and continue to enjoy the inflicting of pain.
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    >”I singled him out and sat him down on a log. I ordered him to cry out: ‘Long live Poglavnik [Fuehrer] Pavelić!’, or I would cut his ear off. Vukasin was silent. I ripped his ear off. He didn’t say a word. I told him once again to cry out ‘Long live Pavelić!’ or I would tear off the other ear too. I tore off the other ear. ‘Yell: “Long live Pavelić!”, or I’ll tear off your nose.’ And when I ordered him for the fourth time to yell ‘Long live Pavelić!’ and threatened to take his heart out with a knife, he looked at me, that is, somehow through me and over me into uncertainty and slowly said: ‘Do your job, child.’ [Radi ti, dijete, svoj posao.] After that, these words of his totally bewildered me. I froze, plucked out his eyes, tore out his heart, cut his throat from ear to ear and threw him into the pit. But then something broke within me and I could no longer kill that night … Brzica won the bet because he had slaughtered 1,360 prisoners and I paid the bet without a word.”

  11. The word “Scum of the earth” was invented exactly for such excuses of life forms. I hope over their graves there are huge latrines.

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