When Dinko Sakić, the last living Holocaust concentration camp director, died last week, Jewish organizations and others hoped that his funeral would not be used as an opportunity for far-right groups to celebrate the actions of this mass murderer. Instead, The Simon Wiesenthal Center and other groups wanted Croatian leaders to take the occasion to condemn Sakić's crimes. That opportunity has since come and gone. According to the AP, Sakić's funeral was indeed used to celebrate him: Sakic was buried wearing the uniform of the Ustasha, the local pro-Nazi movement, according to the Croatian daily Vecernji. It said a priest called Sakic a "model for all Croatians." The funeral was private, attended by family and several minor right-wing politicians. Dr. Efraim Zuroff, SWC's chief Nazi-hunter, wrote an open letter to the Croatian president Stjepan Mesić blasting the funeral's organizers and...

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