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Bezig met laden... Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America, and the Purging of Nazi Germany--A Pledge Betrayeddoor Tom Bower
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This text provides an account of the allied treatment of Nazi war criminals and the failure to denazify Germany. Despite the growing avalanche of evidence after 1939 about Nazi Germany's deliberate extermination policies, the British Foreign Office refused to implement Churchill's orders to organize an effective post-war programme to hunt down and prosecute the perpetrators. That disinterest was matched by the State Department in Washington. Both governments even seemed disintereseted when their own POW's were victims. In the early 1960s, the truth was discovered, that of approximately 150,000 known mass murderers, only about 30,000 had been prosecuted - the vast majority in Eastern Europe. The three western allies were to blame. They had deliberately turned a blind eye to murder. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)943.087History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- East And West 1945-1990LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.5)
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"...Tom Bower is one of the few decent investigative historians. There are too many historians who just use other people’s books to write their own histories but Bower says; Let’s go back to the source. I find the link between history and journalism interesting. Historians tend to think journalists are spivvy and hucksterish with facts and journalists think historians piggy back off other people’s research. But there’s no reason why you can’t be both, like Bower. Anyway, his book is about how we failed to prosecute the thousands of Nazis who went on the run after the war. It is disgraceful that if we thought it was a criminal regime we didn’t go on to prosecute the 80,000 people who committed murders and greater crimes. Nazi Hunting basically stopped after 1948 when about 5% of them had been caught, if that. People like me have to turn initially to this book to work out the extent to which the Allies failed. Read it and it will make you angry. The subtitle is A Pledge Betrayed and this is very accurate. Sure, some Nazis were useful to use against the Soviets in the Cold War, but the extent of it and the cynicism with which things were not done is disgusting. I say this without being naïve...."
The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/guy-walters-on-nazi-hunters (