Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
האומה
Angaben zur Quelle:
145 (תשסב) 41-46
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
War crime trials
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
During World War II the Allies vowed to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. However, in the years following the war, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and other countries accepted many war criminals as refugees. In the 1970s the U.S. decided to try them not for war crimes but for illegal immigration. While some of the other countries enacted legislation in the 1980s-90s to try former Nazis for war crimes, the American method has proved more successful. Many former Nazis lost their American citizenship, while very few were prosecuted in other countries. In 1995 Canada adopted the American method, with better results, but the others have not followed suit. Discusses, also, prosecution of war criminals in the countries in which the crimes were committed, which has become possible since the collapse of the USSR. Contends that it is important to continue the prosecutions in order to remind the world of the dangers of antisemitism, as well as to pay a debt to the Holocaust victims by making sure that the perpetrators have no peace.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
