A former Croatian concentration camp commander on trial for war crimes said the Nazi puppet regime he served had harmed no one. Dinko Sakic’s comments Thursday, made at the start of his defense, came despite reports that up to 85,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies may have perished in the Jasenovac camp while he headed it in 1944.
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