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Last update - 17:21 19/02/2007 Croatia probes why Hitler image, Holocaust jokes on sugar packets By Reuters Small packets of sugar bearing the likeness of Adolf Hitler and carrying Holocaust jokes have been found in some cafes in Croatia, prompting an investigation, the office of the state prosecutor said on Monday. "The local district attorney in [the eastern town of] Pozega has opened an investigation and is currently looking at the matter," said Martina Mihordin. The Novi List daily newspaper reported that officials at a small factory in Pozega have confirmed the sugar packs were produced on their premises. Advertisement The incident may embarrass the government which has been keen to play down the country's past links with Nazism. Croatia's Ustasha regime sided with the Nazis in World War Two and enforced ethnic laws under which thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies, as well as anti-fascist Croats, were killed in local concentration camps in 1941-45. The Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization, said in a statement it had protested the matter to Croatia's authorities. Its director, Efraim Zuroff, expressed his "revulsion and disgust that such an item could be produced these days in a country in which the Holocaust not only took place, but was for the most part carried out by local Nazi collaborators". "If nothing else, this is a disgusting expression of nostalgia for the Third Reich and a period during which Jews, Serbs and Gypsies were mass-murdered," it said. Zuroff urged Croatia to force the factory owners to recall the sugar packets immediately, in line with a law against racial, religious or ethnic hatred. Under President Franjo Tudjman, who governed Croatia from its 1991 independence until 1999, some of the Ustasha symbols were tolerated and their crimes often dismissed in public, which strained relations with Israel. Subsequent Croatian leaders, who set the country on the road to European Union membership, apologized publicly for the Ustasha crimes. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Religious pressure Tel Aviv supermarket chain agrees gradual Shabbat closure. Overgenerous diplomacy UN envoy: Israel has given Syria a 'huge gift' for free.   1.   Croatia should investigate FAST, named guilty PERSON, and PUNISH 18:20  |  Vittorio 19/02/07   2.   Jokes 18:46  |  SS 19/02/07   3.   SS 19:25  |  na 19/02/07   4.   to SS 19:53  |  Not Laughing 19/02/07   5.   CROATIA 21:11  |  gilberto 19/02/07   6.   Vice versa history 23:10  |  Dushan Vukotich 19/02/07   7.   holocaust studies in Croatia 01:12  |  Fred 20/02/07   8.   Are these croat christians or muslims or both? 04:22  |  yankef 20/02/07   9.   Re: Are these croat christians or muslims or both? 15:43  |  Haiku 20/02/07   10.   Former Yugoslavia 17:47  |  Slobodan ? 20/02/07   11.   ahh 17:53  |  me 20/02/07   12.   Re:former yugoslavia 18:55  |  Mark 20/02/07   13.   Hmmm 19:13  |  Matt 20/02/07   14.   incident?? 21:04  |  Bo 20/02/07   15.   to Not Laughing 22:03  |  Benjamin 20/02/07   16.   `nostalgia` in the US 22:11  |  David 20/02/07   17.   Hypocrisy 22:43  |  Smradovi 20/02/07   18.   Croatia 00:55  |  oxford 21/02/07   19.   Peace 05:59  |  Peace 21/02/07   20.   Who was Tudjman? 07:55  |  Mike 21/02/07   21.   Directly from Croatia 15:32  |  Marina 21/02/07   22.   Tolerance = Liberty 00:48  |  seth 22/02/07   23.   Holocaust in Croatia. Must see!! 21:06  |  Dona 26/02/07   24.   Re: holocaust studies in Croatia 00:26  |  Goran 01/05/07   25.   Re:Who was Tudjman? 21:09  |  akrap 18/06/08   26.   Croatia=NDH 21:26  |  akrap 18/06/08

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