Britain's controversial War Crimes Act 1991 gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the United Kingdom for war crimes committed during the Second World War. But despite the extensive investigative and legal work that followed and the expenditure of some €11 million, this only resulted in one conviction.
Drawing on previously unavailable archival materials, /"Safe Haven/" examines for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations, and so many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and n have never even appeared before a criminal court.
To discuss the book and the questions it raises, the Begin Center's Paul Gross speaks with co-author Jon Silverman and Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's principal Nazi hunter and director of its office in Israel and in Eastern Europe. business.
The book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Haven-Kingdoms-Investigations-Collaborators-ebook/dp/B0CHQPNY59/refsr_1_1
Jon Silverman is Emeritus Professor of Media and Criminal Justice at the University of Bedfordshire. He is a former BBC home affairs correspondent, in which role he won the Sony Radio Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of British investigations into Nazi collaborators. He has worked on the tribunals of Rwanda and Yugoslavia and has written extensively for journals on international war crimes justice, particularly on the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa. He is the author of four books.
In his role at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff uncovered the escape destinations of more than 3,000 suspected Nazi war criminals worldwide and facilitated the denunciation and prosecution of dozens of them. The author of four books (translated into 15 languages) and more than 500 articles on the hunt for the Nazis, the history of the Holocaust, and contemporary Jewish life and identity, Zuroff is a leading spokesperson to the world on issues related to the Holocaust.
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