Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters"
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@markc6714 Thanks for the opportunity.
'The 14th Waffen SS Division and their families was transferred to the UK - war criminals included. The Foreign Office was "...not holding membership of the Waffen SS as a crime..." and despite warnings that the screening process was hopelessly inadequate the FO was still claimed: "...there is little, if any, possibility of any person with an undesirable wartime record being brought to this country". Strangely, it was thought best to keep the whole issue quiet as the British public might not understand the policy. There is no doubt that there were war criminals among the 14th Waffen SS, but the UK chose to look the other way. Many of these soldiers made their way to the United States or Canada in due course.
'Antanas Gecas was a Lithuanian Nazi who lived in Edinburgh. Under his original name of Gecevicius, he was named in a list of war criminals living in the UK compiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in 1986. British intelligence even employed him after the war. He was never indicted for war crimes, despite a multitude of evidence testifying to his participation in a number of heinous activities. He died peacefully, unlike men, women and children he hanged in Minsk, in 2001.'
'Andrei Sawoniuk is the only Nazi war Criminal to have been convicted under the War Crimes Act 1991 in the UK. He had lived and worked in the UK since 1946. He was found guilty of forcing two men and a woman to strip, shooting them in the back of the head before an open grave. He was submachine gunned 15 people as they stood naked by a pit Domacheo, Belarus. He spent his life working for British Rail.
Syzmon Serafinowicz who also came to the UK after the war was also prosecuted for crimes committed in Belarus, though the trial collapsed as he was deemed unfit to stand trial because of his age. 'Even if an aging Nazi... was discovered today living in Britain, that person would be 85 or older. Unlike Germany – which is still willing to prosecute such Nazis – or the US – which is willing to denaturalize and deport them – the British appear uninterested in taking either course of action. The usual reason given is that these individuals are too feeble to assist in their defence...It is an especially strange answer coming from Britain, where, as of 2010, 51 peers over 85 years old serve on the House of Lords.
In order to inform yourself of the history of your country your media and education overlook, see:
Cesarani, David, (2001) 'Justice Delayed: How Britain Became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals' (Phoenix Press)
Cheers.
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