Argentina plans to expel a retired college professor after postwar documents were found providing evidence that he was a Croatian concentration camp commander during World War II. The Argentine Jewish group DAIA discovered the 1946 documents implicating Mirko Eterovic, and 60 other Croatian Nazis who found haven in Argentina after the war, in the murders of some 800,000 people in camps run by Croatia’s wartime Ustashe puppet regime.
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