Nazi-hunter petitions Zagreb to reject plans to honor filmmaker

The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Tuesday urged the Zagreb City Council to reject a proposal to honor Croatian film director Jakov Sedlar, accusing him of distorting the history of WWII and the Holocaust.

Sedlar’s 2016 film about the Jasenovac concentration camp, Jasenovac – The Truth, sparked uproar among Croatian Jews.

They accused the filmmaker of downplaying atrocities perpetrated by Ustasa fascists in the former Independent State of Croatia, or NDH, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, the Croatian puppet-state of Nazi Germany and Italy during World War II.

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