Sherwood Robert (Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian)
Sherwood Robert (Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian) - Safe Haven The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators And The Failure Of Justice -
Sherwood Robert (Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian) - Safe Haven The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators And The Failure Of Justice -
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Description: 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. 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 (WC Us) 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. 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 the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together the authors argue that these - - including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial - - meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court. The authors situate this history within the legacy of the Holocaust: how if at all do the belated attempts to address a failure of justice sit with an ever - growing awareness of the Holocaust represented by memorialization and education? In so doing Safe Haven provokes a timely reconsideration of the relationship between law history and truth.
Title: Safe Haven The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators And The Failure Of Justice
Author(s): Sherwood Robert (Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192855176
Pages: 336 Pages, 12 Black And White Images And Maps
Publication Date: 1/5/2024
Category: Legal History
Description: 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. 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 (WC Us) 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. 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 the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together the authors argue that these - - including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial - - meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court. The authors situate this history within the legacy of the Holocaust: how if at all do the belated attempts to address a failure of justice sit with an ever - growing awareness of the Holocaust represented by memorialization and education? In so doing Safe Haven provokes a timely reconsideration of the relationship between law history and truth.
Title: Safe Haven The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators And The Failure Of Justice
Author(s): Sherwood Robert (Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian Retired Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector And Historian)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192855176
Pages: 336 Pages, 12 Black And White Images And Maps
Publication Date: 1/5/2024
Category: Legal History
