Justice delayed

Justice delayed

by Cesarani, David

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In the postwar years, the British authorities, for both political and economic reasons, granted entry to tens of thousands of DPs, former residents of the Baltic States, the Ukraine, and Belorussia. Many of them were former SS-men, including outright war criminals, guilty of the massacre of thousands of people. In the 1950s-70s Britain refused their extradition to the USSR. In 1986 the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group was formed; it established that many war criminals were residing in B…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Justice delayed / David Cesarani.

Summary

In the postwar years, the British authorities, for both political and economic reasons, granted entry to tens of thousands of DPs, former residents of the Baltic States, the Ukraine, and Belorussia. Many of them were former SS-men, including outright war criminals, guilty of the massacre of thousands of people. In the 1950s-70s Britain refused their extradition to the USSR. In 1986 the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group was formed; it established that many war criminals were residing in Britain. Its campaign for modifying British legislation in order to enable the prosectution of war criminals was dubbed by some opponents as a Jewish campaign whose purpose was vengeance and which could damage Christian-Jewish relations. Nevertheless, in 1989, the War Crimes Bill was introduced in Parliament, and in 1991 it became law.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1992.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Heinemann
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1992.

The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, portraits ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0434113042, 9780434113040
  • oclc:ocm26314866
  • LC Classification:D803
  • Dewey Decimal:364.1380941

Subjects

Germany Grande-Bretagne -- Politique et gouvern… Great Britain Great Britain -- Politics and governmen… Oorlogsmisdadigers Politics and government Since 1945 Strafvervolging Vluchtelingen War criminals War criminals -- Germany War criminals -- Great Britain World War 2 World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities

Writers

Cesarani, David

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