Safe Haven: The United Kingdoms Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice Silverman Jon
Safe Haven: The United Kingdoms Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice Silverman Jon The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British…
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Safe Haven: The United Kingdoms Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice Silverman Jon
The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States, Germany, and Australia, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries, from But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some 11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk.Drawing on previously unavailable archival documents, transcripts of interviews with suspects, and disclosures by senior lawyers and policer offers in the War Crimes Units (WCUs), in parallel with the history of bungled investigations in the 1940s, Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations.