The Independent newspaper has had to pay substantial libel damages after mistakenly suggesting that a respected actor was in fact a Nazi war criminal.
In 2010, Ljubomir Jurkovic’s picture appeared in a front page lead story about the death of one of the most wanted surviving wartime Nazis.
In fact, the photo came from a critically acclaimed Croatian movie, in which Mr Jurkovic, 52, played the role of an officer in the Ustasa, the country’s fascist movement.
Mr Jurkovic’s barrister, Christina Michalos, said the newspaper had wrongly identified him as Samuel Kunz, a Nazi guard at the Belzec extermination camp in Poland.
