Justice delayed : how Britain became a refuge for Nazi war criminals

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. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) Set against a detailed historical account of the situation in Europe at the end of World War II, this work aims to reveal for the first time how Nazi war criminals and collaborators were not only permitted to enter Britain undetected, but were in some instances actively recruited.