Alongside this explosive national situation, religious conflict drew the Catholics, Orthodox Serbs and Muslims against one another. Once, when I spoke to a Cetnik leader in Montenegro about ending attacks on the Muslims - which he did promise me, and he kept his promise - I received an answer that could have come from the anecdotes of Marko Miljanov back in the time of the Turkish occupation: "He who adopts Islam, is no longer a Serb!"
The slaughter of the Orthodox Serbs undertaken the Ustasha leaders and led by the Poglavnik (head of state) of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, reminds one of the religious wars of bloodiest memory. "A third must become Catholic, a third must leave the country, and a third must die!" This last point of their program was accomplished. When prominent Ustasha leaders claimed that they slaughtered a million Serbs (including babies, children, women and the elderly), that is, in my opinion, a boastful exaggeration. On the basis of the reports submitted to me, I believe that the number of defenseless victims slaughtered to be three quarters of a million.
When I once again brought up the truth about the terrible atrocities around me in Croatia, Adolf Hitler said to me:
"I have also told the Poglavnik that one cannot exterminate such a minority: it is simply too large!"