Thursday, 17 May 2018
1005 Secret History
First viewed : 28 November 1991
This was Channel 4's answer to BBC2's Timewatch, a history series of hour-long documentaries with an emphasis on suppressed stories from the past
Ratlines ( 28 November 1991 )
The first episode I saw was a timely examination of the role of the Vatican in enabling Croation war criminals, most notably the brutal dictator Ante Pavelic, to escape justice at the end of World War Two. In doing so. it provided ample justification for Serbian reluctance to countenance the re-creation of a Croatian state. Another part of the programme I recall is the friendly links between Pavelic and the papal aide Montini who later became pope Paul VI.
The Hidden Holocaust ( 27 July 1992 )
This episode concerned the Armenian Genocide of 1915-16, still denied by the Turkish government. It concluded with a reference to Hitler's reported remark in a speech in 1939 , "Who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Aemenians ?"
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