Magnum Crimen

Magnum crimen, adrenal Title: Pola vijeka klerikalizma u Hrvatskoj ( The great crime: A half century of clericalism in Croatia ) is a Croatian language published in Zagreb for the first time 1948 book by former Roman Catholic priest and historian Viktor Yugoslav Novak.

It belongs to the publications in Communist Yugoslavia, with the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) deal and is a documentation of the "betrayal " of the present "collaboration " and the " crimes " of the Croatian fascist Ustasha movement. In connection with the Communist postwar trials against Ustasha officials and their " accomplices ", especially from the ranks of the Catholic clergy, it is thereby supported mostly on documents from the archive of State Yugoslav " National Commission for the investigation of the crimes of the occupation forces and their accomplices " as well as press reports of the Ustasha and church. The book said to have been commissioned by communist authorities in order to support the work carried out by you show trials and documented the atrocities committed by the Ustasha in detailed form. The book shows a communist propagandist and anti-Catholic tendency, but is still considered one of the most important works of Yugoslav historiography on this topic.

Content

The author Viktor Novak engaged in the book with the role of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church in Croatia from the 19th century until the end of World War II. The publication focuses particularly its involvement in the crimes that were committed by the Ustasha klerikalfaschistische the time of the Independent State of Croatia and their requirements.

History

The first edition appeared as large format paperback, with 1119 pages on thin paper. You should after an unconfirmed rumor, have been largely bought up and destroyed by order of the Catholic Church. Perhaps because of this or maybe even because of the small edition of only 4000 pieces, the first edition is a bibliographic rarity.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church put the book shortly after its release on it ( 1965/66 abgeschafftes ) "List of Prohibited Books ". Against the author, it imposed an excommunication.

In 1960, a second abridged edition appeared generally unnoticed under the translated title into the Croatian language Velika optužba in the series Društvo i religija ( society and religion ) of the publisher Svjetlost in Sarajevo.

It was not until the third edition, which was published in 1986 when Nova knjiga publishing house in Belgrade, probably in light of the worsening nationality conflict within Yugoslavia, paid more attention by the public again. The demand of the Roman Catholic weekly Glas Koncila, to provide instead of an untested reprinting of the work, the new edition with its own source edition remained unheeded.

In 2011, the fourth edition was published in two volumes, with a limited edition of 1500 pieces in English.

Expenditure ( selection)

• Magnum crimen: pola vijeka klerikalizma u Hrvatskoj. Nákladní zavod Hrvatske, Zagreb 1948.
• Velika optužba ( Magnum crimen ): pola vijeka klerikalizma u Hrvatskoj. 2nd abridged edition. Svjetlost, Sarajevo 1960.
• Magnum crimen: pola vijeka klerikalizma u Hrvatskoj. Nova knjiga, Belgrade, 1986 ( reprint of the first edition ).