Justice Delayed : How Britain Became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals

by Cesarani, David

• ISBN13: 9781842121269
• ISBN10: 184212126X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub

Summary

Cesarani describes how the immigration policy of Clement Attlee's post-war government actually favoured Eastern Europeans over non-whites and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Despite protests from MPs Dick Crossman and Tom Driberg, former members of the Waffen-SS and Nazi police units made new lives in Britain. British intelligence recruited agents among them and sent many into the Eastern Bloc, where they were betrayed by Kim Philby.Only in 1986 did the Simon Wiesenthal Centre provide evidence that could not be ignored. The House of Lords defied the Commons in a last ditch effort to stop legislation which would permit war crime trials in Britain but on May 10, 1991, the war crimes bill was signed by The Queen.This authoritative book written by a former researcher for the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group, brings together the whole extraordinary story, exposing the use made of Nazi collaborators by British intelligence, the post-war 'cover up' and provides in-depth background to the first war crimes trials in Britain for fifty years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Abbreviations	viii
Introduction	1	(8)
Collaborators and War Criminals	9	(24)
Germany, Year Zero	33	(9)
`Keep the Balts for As Long As Possible, and As Quietly As Possible'	42	(24)
`Good Human Stock': Population Policy, Immigration and Foreign Labour Recruitment	66	(16)
The Waffen-SS Comes to Britain I: The Balts	82	(20)
The Waffen-SS Comes to Britain II: The Ukrainians	102	(32)
EVWs, the Cold War and the Intelligence Connection	134	(28)
Justice Delayed	162	(28)
The War Crimes Campaign in Britain, 1986--1989	190	(35)
The Struggle for the War Crimes Act	225	(22)
Conclusion: The Arguments and the Issues	247	(21)
Afterword: Justice Delivered? 1991--2001	268	(16)
Notes	284	(34)
Appendices	318	(5)
Bibliography	323	(8)
Index	331