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   From: davidjohnston29@block.com   
      
   On 4/20/2017 10:05 PM, Greg Carr wrote:   
   > Kept secret for nearly 70 years, a trove of United Nations war crimes   
   > files made public this week contains early evidence of Nazi death   
   > camps that was smuggled out of Eastern Europe into Allied hands.   
   >   
   > “It was unknown that the Allies prepared prosecutions of Adolf Hitler   
   > and the rest of the Nazis for the death camps in Europe while the   
   > Nazis were still in power and while they were still running occupied   
   > Europe,” says British historian Dan Plesch, whose new book Human   
   > Rights After Hitler delves into the files of the United Nations War   
   > Crimes Commission (UNWCC).   
   >   
   > “There are many such dossiers of legally prepared indictments of   
   > Hitler and other Nazis for many of their crimes, including the   
   > extermination of the Jews, and these were drawn up long before D-Day.”   
   >   
   > Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy   
   > at the University of London, said in an interview that as early as   
   > 1942, Allied leaders publicly condemned a Nazi project to exterminate   
   > Jews that they knew was underway.   
   >   
   > The full extent of the Holocaust, which killed six million Jews, was   
   > revealed when concentration camps were liberated in the final stages   
   > of the Second World War, but the Polish government in exile had   
   > earlier provided detailed descriptions of atrocities in such camps as   
   > Auschwitz and Treblinka.   
   >   
   >   
   > Related   
   > German prosecutor turning around his country’s poor record at   
   > convicting SS soldiers   
   > This 95-year-old Holocaust survivor has a roommate — a 31-year-old   
   > granddaughter of Nazis   
   > Archaeologists unearth human bones near site where Nazi scientists   
   > experimented on Holocaust victims   
   > Plesch said that the early evidence suggests that in 1942 and 1943,   
   > more could have been done to rescue Jews from the Nazis by using   
   > escape routes through France and the Balkans — parts of Europe that   
   > were not yet under Nazi control.   
   >   
   > “You can’t say that people didn’t know,” Plesch said. “They did know   
   > and still didn’t act.” And once the war was over, he added, “there was   
   > a great deal more evidence and a great deal more that could have been   
   > done to prosecute than was done.”   
   >   
   > Allied states including Canada, the United Kingdom and the United   
   > States created the UNWCC in 1943 and co-operated on the investigation   
   > of more than 36,000 international criminal cases between 1943 and   
   > 1948. Plesch writes in Human Rights After Hitler that an American   
   > shift in emphasis from punishing Nazis to combating communism led to   
   > the closing of the UNWCC.   
   >   
   > “The commission’s files contained indictments against thousands of   
   > Nazis who were then allowed to go free,” he writes. While people   
   > remember the trials of top Nazi officials at Nuremberg, the UNWCC’s   
   > pursuit of underlings has been largely forgotten.   
   >   
   > At the urging of U.S. intelligence officials, the UNWCC files were   
   > classified and public access was prohibited. More recently,   
   > researchers were granted access on the condition that they not take   
   > notes. Plesch led an effort to persuade diplomats to release the   
   > secret material.   
   >   
   > You can’t say that people didn’t know. They did know and still didn’t   
   > act   
   > He said he stumbled upon the vast archive when he found reference to a   
   > UNWCC form outlining charges brought by Canada against SS commander   
   > Kurt Meyer. Meyer was convicted of ordering the 1944 murders of 20   
   > Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy, France.   
   >   
   > Plesch said the evidence of war crimes contained in the files   
   > “provides a whole hardware store of nails to hammer in the coffin of   
   > Holocaust denial. This is a huge trove of prosecutions of the   
   > Holocaust from during World War II, legally authorized documentation.”   
   >   
   > He said the archive also offers a lesson today as atrocities continue   
   > to be committed in Syria and elsewhere.   
   >   
   > “They had a very effective, low-cost system for prosecuting low-level   
   > perps, and we badly need something like that today,” he said.   
   >   
   > “If they could be taking evidence from people escaping from under the   
   > jackboot of the SS, why aren’t we doing the same when it comes to   
   > people escaping from Syria?”   
   >   
   > ((Why dont they care about the pedophiles and rapists and organized   
   > crime criminals in Canada.   
      
   I was unaware that Canada had stopped prosecuting cases of rape and   
   child pornography.   
      
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