The wartime Nazi puppet state of Croatia may have looted as much as $80 million in gold from Jewish victims, according to a report released by the U.S. State Department. The report cites documents that leaders of the country’s Ustashe regime — who were accused of torturing and killing an estimated 500,000 Jews, Serbs and Gypsies during the war — used Vatican ties to escape Europe after the war with a possible fortune in plundered gold. While unable to pin down the amount of gold that may have been looted, the report called on the Vatican to open its archives to help provide an “accounting of the gold and valuables” taken from the victims of wartime Croatia.
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