Although the Serbs were the primary target of the Ustasha’s ethnic cleansing campaign, they were not the only target. In line with Hitler’s directives and a substantial amount of indigenous anti-Semitism and racism, the Ustasha also rounded up and exterminated the vast majority of the Jews and Gypsies in the country. On May 25, 1941, in an article in a Catholic Action publication entitled “Why are the Jews Being Persecuted”, Priest Franjo Kralik justifies the persecution on religious grounds: