Ante Pavelić

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Nikola Selakovic on Tuesday awarded a Serbian passport and citizenship to Marija Jovovic, daughter of Blagoje Jovovic, the assassin of Ante Pavelic, who was the leader of the Independent State of Croatia, the WWII-era pro-Nazi puppet state.

If Spain adopts a new historical memory law, the tombs of Croatia's World War II Fascist leaders Ante Pavelic and Vjekoslav Maks Luburic may have to move to less prominent sites, or back to their native Bosnia.

The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center also told Vienna-based daily Der Standard that Austria's handling of perpetrators was "absolutely idiotic."

He particularly criticized the events taking place in Bleiburg each year, which the newspaper described as "annual meeting of right-wing extremist held in mid-May in Carinthia."

The leadership of the small Jewish community in Croatia, along with representatives of the country's Serb minority, has boycotted the last two government-sponsored Holocaust commemorations in 2016 and 2017.

BELGRADE - Many heroes' names line the pages of WWII history. Many of these men and women were not recognized and known to the public during their lifetimes - some were secret agents, some worked within underground resistance groups, and some conducted their plans hidden in plain sight, writes warhistoryonline.com.

A letter dating November 1947 by Lt Col G F Blunda, of the US Army, to Col Carl F Fritzsche, assistant deputy director of intelligence in the CIA, says the British and Americans had dumped plans to arrest Ante Pavelic, although they knew his whereabouts in the Vatican and had a prepared plan to lure him out.