Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
50,4 (2002) 322-329
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
War crime trials
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Even though Australia was party to all the UN bodies and conventions on the prosecution of war crimes, it allowed many East European, and in the 1950s also German, war criminals to infiltrate it in the guise of DPs and rejected demands for their extradition. Only in 1989, after a public campaign by Mark Aarons, did Australia pass a law and set up a Special Investigations Unit to deal with war criminals. By the time the mandate of the SIU expired in 1992, only a few criminals - Ukrainians and Latvians - responsible for the murder of hundreds of Jews, had been brought to trial; not one of them was sentenced, and there was little public interest. The ethnic communities of the accused vehemently opposed their prosecution, and most Australians were happy to let the matter rest.
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