In August , 1941, the Ustaše turned the Glina Orthodox Church into a slaughterhouse soaked in blood . Over 1,000 Serb men, unarmed and misled by promises of salvation, were packed inside and then sealed inside like cattle in a killing pen. Vjekoslav “Maks” Luburić’s death squads entered, not as soldiers, but as torturers. What followed was not a massacre; it was ritualized, psychotic evisceration. Men were forced to kneel before the altar, then skinned alive with bayonets . Some were nailed to the church floor through their hands like mock crucifixions, their ribs broken with hammers as they begged for death. The Ustaše taunted the victims, making fathers watch as their sons were strangled with their own intestines, or had their faces peeled off and displayed like trophies.The floor soon became a slippery lake of gore, with steaming entrails tangled in pews and severed heads stacked in corners like firewood. The killers laughed, cheered, even took photos of each other posing with mutilated corpses. Some victims were still alive when hot iron rods were shoved down their throats, or when eyes were carved out and replaced with burning embers. The slaughter lasted hours! slow, methodical, depraved.When it ended, the Ustaše poured fuel over the bodies, torched the church, and left the smoldering ruins as a warning. Survivors who hid beneath corpses recalled the stench of feces, blood, and charred human fat, and the sight of dogs chewing on scorched limbs the next morning.