Justice delayed : Nazi war criminals in Canada

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0920197426 
ISBN 13
9780920197424 
LCCN
D803.M37 
DDC
364.1 
Category
War Crimes  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1987 
Publisher
Summerhill Press LTD, United States 
Pages
275 
Subject
Holocaust 
Abstract
"The authors served as legal counsel for the League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith to the Deschênes Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals. Describes the work of the commission and the process by which Nazi collaborators entered Canada as immigrant DPs. Presents evidence that the Canadian government knowingly participated in British-U.S. schemes to settle known war criminals in the West, sheltered high-level collaborators (such as Count Jacques de Bernonville, military commandant of Lyon under Klaus Barbie), and made no effort to trace war criminals up to 1980. Examines the legal possibilities for prosecuting or deporting suspected war criminals, attacking the legal arguments presented by the government for inaction. Ch. 10 (pp. 163-186), "Ukrainian-Jewish Relations" discusses the motives of the Ukrainian, Croatian, and Baltic emigre communities in opposing investigation of war criminals. also describes government reaction to the Deschenes report and the attempts to carry out its recommendations. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)." - Voila 
Description
Contents:
1. The Deschenes Commission of Inquiry -- 2. The historical background -- 3. Sanctuary? -- 4. Forty years of inaction -- 5. The Nuremberg tribunal -- 6. Remedies -- 7. The reasons for inaction -- 8. The motives for inaction -- 9. Why a commision of inquiry? -- 10. Ukrainian-Jewish relations -- 11. Evidence from eastern Europe -- 12. The government's response -- 13. After the commission of inquiry -- 14. Freedom of information and war criminals -- 15. Kurt Waldheim and Canada -- 16. Justice delayed. 
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