The Vatican admits to involvement in genocide of Serbs and Jews during WWII

From http://www.arcticbeacon.com/10-Aug-2006.html

Vatican Lawyers Claim Nazi Regime Violated No Laws in Genocide of 500,000 Serbs and Jews

A November hearing is set in Federal Court in the ongoing lawsuit of Alperin v. Vatican Bank. The Vatican Bank stands accused of post war laundering of genocide profits.
10 Aug 2006

By Greg Szymanski

Vatican lawyers, including Pope Benedict's personal attorney, recently argued that genocide committed in Croatia during the Second World War by a Nazi regime with complicity by the Papacy was permissible under international law.

The outrageous argument was part of a motion in the ongoing lawsuit of Alperin v. Vatican Bank set for a hearing in November in Federal Court in San Francisco.

Vatican attorneys are seeking a dismissal, saying the Vatican Bank is immune because the Nazi backed Croatian regime did not violate international law by slaughtering 500,000 of its own citizens - Serbs, Jews, and Roman in an ethnic cleansing campaign.

"The Vatican Bank stands accused of the post war laundering of the profits of genocide, including dental gold taken from the victims of the Nazi backed Croatian regime known as the Ustasha," said Jonathan Levy, attorney for the victims.

"We are outraged that the Vatican Bank suggests that genocide and plunder are permissible acts under international law."

Levy further questions whether the Pope is even aware of what defense the bank's attorneys are proposing, adding:

"On the one hand the Vatican is quick to condemn Israel and Serbia in recent years but in essence says it's OK to butcher 500,000 people, steal their belongings and stash it in the Vatican Bank. Pope Benedict should be concerned that the moral integrity of his Papacy is being undermined in a Federal Court."

According to Levy, Alperin v. Vatican Bank was originally filed in Federal Court in San Francisco in November 1999. The plaintiffs are concentration camp survivors of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian background and their relatives as well as organizations representing over 300,000 Holocaust victims.

The plaintiffs also seek an accounting and restitution of the Nazi Croatian Treasury that according to the U.S. State Department was illicitly transferred to the Vatican bank and other banks after the end of the war.

Named defendants currently include the Vatican Bank, Franciscan Order, and the Croatian Liberation Movement. Levy said these defendants combined to conceal assets looted by the Croatian Nazis from concentration camp victims, Serbs, Jews, Roma and others between 1941-1945.

Levy is also quick to point out the heart of the Vatican Bank lawsuit is based on information chronicled in the book, The Secret War Against the Jews, co-authored by John Loftus who also serves as the plaintiffs expert witness in this case.

He added that from the authors of the bestselling, The Secret War Against the Jews , comes another explosive work, Unholy Trinity, exploring links between the Vatican and the Nazis, featuring startling new information that redefines the Catholic Church's role in twentieth-century history.

"I have filed another lawsuit, Levy v. CIA, filed under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking release of U.S. Intelligence agency files regarding the notorious Vatican spymaster, Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic. New records on Draganovic were released as a result of that lawsuit in 2001," said Levy.

Levy, who has appeared several times on Greg Szymanski's radio show, The Investigative Journal, is licensed in California and the District of Columbia , as well as having represented organizations and individuals in a variety of Holocaust and World War II related lawsuits including banking, insurance, and slave labor matters. Levy is also a member of the International Criminal Bar in The Hague.

For the entire lawsuit of Alperin v. Vatican Bank, go to http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/4ac.pdf
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