Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice

The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some £11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk.



Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the U...