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.
So Maybe Kim Philby was a righteous gentile
ReplyDeleteThere are bigger stories than "How does it affect the Jews?"
ReplyDeleteThe minute WW2 ended, the Cold War began. The Russian were busy kidnapping the top German scientists and military strategists. The West had no choice but to do the same to maintain their competitive advantage. Countless Nazis were spared proper punishment because they were needed to fight the Soviets.
Don't forget that America got to the moon first because of a Nazi rocket scientist. Yes, they were evil men but again, they were "our" SOB's
After WW2 the USSR was the immediate threat. The Nazis were yesterday's threat. Not making a deal with the devil meant losing to the new devil. Not acceptable.
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