Questions on Archbishop Gregoriji Rozman

[G. Trifkovic]

Dear fellow members,

I have a couple of questions on Archbishop of Ljubljana,Gregoriji Rozman.First could anybody give me a link where I could find a decent biography?Second,what is today's stand on his activities during the war? Collaborator,or patriot or...? Any similarties to "Stepinac case"?

Thanks very much,

Gaius

P.S.To moderators: I'm not quite sure wheather this section is the right place to place these questions.If not,please feel free to move it to a more appropriate location.

[Apologist]

Dear fellow members,

I have a couple of questions on Archbishop of Ljubljana,Gregoriji Rozman.First could anybody give me a link where I could find a decent biography?Second,what is today's stand on his activities during the war? Collaborator,or patriot or...? Any similarties to "Stepinac case"?

Thanks very much,

Gaius

P.S.To moderators: I'm not quite sure wheather this section is the right place to place these questions.If not,please feel free to move it to a more appropriate location.

Try http://www.Wikipedia.org

[Leib Garde]

He was a collaborator. (dot)

[Klemen L.]

I have a couple of questions on Archbishop of Ljubljana,Gregoriji Rozman.First could anybody give me a link where I could find a decent biography?Second,what is today's stand on his activities during the war? Collaborator,or patriot or...? Any similarties to "Stepinac case"?

There is no decent biography of Archbishop Rozman, but here are some useful books, which contain a decent amount of information about him.

* Kolarič, Jakob: "Škof Rožman : duhovna podoba velike osebnosti na prelomnici časa"; V Celovcu : Družba sv. Mohorja, 1967-1977

* Lenič, Stanislav & Griesser-Pečar, Tamara: "Stanislav Lenič: življenjepis iz zapora"; Celovec, Ljubljana, Dunaj : Mohorjeva založba, 1997 (Monsignor Stanislav Lenic was his personal secretary during the war)

* Griesser-Pečar, Tamara: "Škof Rožman in kolaboracija?"; Nova Slovenska Zaveza. - ISSN C500-4446. - #Let. #6, #št. #3 (1996), str. 45-49 Ilustr. (Nova Slovenska Zaveza - NSZ is an official journal of the Slovenian Anti-Communist Veterans of World War II.)

* Griesser-Pečar, Tamara: "Razdvojeni narod: Slovenija 1941-1945: okupacija, kolaboracija, državljanska vojna, revolucija"; Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2004 (Also available in German - Das zerissene Volk Slowenien 1941-1946. Okkupation, Kollaboration, Bürgerkrieg, Revolution ... http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3 ... 04-8373623)

* Griesser-Pečar, Tamara: "Cerkev na zatožni klopi: sodni procesi, administrativne kazni, posegi "ljudske oblasti" v Sloveniji od 1943 do 1960"; Ljubljana: Družina, 2005 (Very good book about the Catholic Church in Slovenia during and after the war)

There is not much to say about him. He was a proud Carinthian Slovene who as such not only knew and experienced Nationalsocialism from his first hand, who has found himself at the head of the Slovenian Catholic Church at the most terrible time in our history. The communists, as usual, did everything to discredit him in their post-war quasi-history. He did everything possible to keep as many Slovenes alive, not to be sacrificed on the altar of foreign powers for foreign interests and foreign ideologies and as such was seen by the communists as their No.1 enemy.

He collaborated with the Germans and Italians as much as everyone else in Europe did (interventions for re-settled people, interventions for hostages or appealing on Germans or Italians for release of prisoners (ironically including the captured partisans and even communist leaders - F. Tomsic etc.))

The trial after the war in which they condemned him to death was a complete farse like all communist trials between 1943-50. This is something what can actually be easy to prove by just checking the trial documents.

He was a collaborator.

... and this is a perfect example of what they taught and still teach in Slovenia.

[Mark V.]

I would add two more excellent books on the subject:

Griesser-Pečar, Tamara & Dolinar, France M.: Rožmanov proces; Ljubljana, Družina, 1996
Škulj, Edo et al: Rožmanov simpozij v Rimu; Celje, Mohorjeva družba, 2001

and would completely agree with what Klemen wrote.