41.   Slovakia was part of a puppet state of Nazi Germany during World War II.

42.   Tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and Croat opponents were slaughtered, beaten or starved to death here by the then Nazi puppet state of Croatia.

43.   The Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia were under Nazi occupation throughout World War II, while Slovakia was a separate Nazi puppet state.

44.   The participants admire the puppet Slovak state of Nazi Germany that deported thousands of Jews to concentration camps.

45.   The United States has expressed regret over a Memorial Day mix-up in which wreath bearers included two people wearing insignias from a former Nazi puppet state.

46.   There also is residual animosity toward Germany due to the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II and its support for a Nazi puppet state in Croatia.

47.   The Zagreb court said Sakic is suspected of running Jasenovac and the Stara Gradiska concentration camp during the war, when Croatia was a Nazi puppet state.

48.   Tudjman is often accused by rivals of cultivating nationalism that harks back to World War II, when Croatia was a Nazi puppet state.

49.   Tudjman is often accused by rivals of cultivating the nationalism that harks back to World War II, when Croatia was a Nazi puppet state.

50.   Tudjman also is often accused by rivals of cultivating the nationalism that harks back to World War II, when Croatia was a Nazi puppet state.