Blind Eye to Murder

By Tom Bower

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0751518220
• ISBN13: 9780751518221
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Warner
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Reality in a nutshell

I first discovered this book at the Shakespeare bookshop across the street from Notre Dame in 1986. The book is a very tough but fulfilling read ostensibly about the prices paid and not paid for war crimes after world war II. My interpretation is this book is an insight into how governments are run in the face of reality. Indeed the opening chapters convey that reality in horrific details of governments avoiding lines in the sand and avoiding confronting the truth so as to ultimately avoid having to take any more responsibility than absolutely necessary. This book is a descroption and condemnation of the failures of governing then but also the same failures built into the very fabric of the governments we currently live under. It's interesting but not for the faint of heart or those who only want to hear that the problem with our govenments are the idiots the other half of the electorate elected rather than the foundation of the government and the reality of human beings simply being human beings.