Hubert Butler was a prominent advocate for human rights after World War 2, using his expertise gathered from working and writing in Eastern Europe before and after the war. He uncovered the extent of the Nazi-inspired Croatian genocide and focused on the role of Christian Churches, particularly the Catholic Church. Despite his efforts, he was labelled a communist in his native Ireland, where Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac was imprisoned in 1946.
Hubert Butler: Witness to the Future
Brave and daring individual Hubert Butler risked danger to smuggle Jewish refugees into Ireland before World War II, then courageously exposed the massive scale of Serbian genocide in wartime Croatia, despite opposition and silence in his own country.
