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72 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1988
A
n all-party group of
British legislators
has found that the
British government opened
its doors and closed its eyes to
the immigration of thousands
of war criminals after World
War II.
The non-partisan parlia-
mentary group, which
presented its report last
week, was formed to inquire
into the immigration of col-
laborators and war criminals
following allegations by the
Los Angeles-based Simon
Wiesenthal Center that alleg-
ed war criminals were living
in Britain.
According to one of the
legislators, Greville Janner, a
leading member of the Bri-
tish Jewish community and
honorary secretary of the
group, literally thousands of
members of the Waffen SS —
notorious for wartime atro-
cities — settled in Britain.
Moreover, he said, the govern-
ment "did not give a damn."
Taken together, the report
—which is based on recently
declassified cabinet docu-
ments, parliamentary reports
as well as letters and memo-
randa between civil servants
—paints a picture of a British
government that indulged in
an extraordinary level of
hypocrisy, insensitivity and
duplicity.
It shows that while Britain
was refusing to allow Jewish
death camp survivors into
Palestine and blocking their
immigration to Britain, some
90,000 Ukranians, Latvians,
Yugoslays and ethnic Ger-
mans, many of whom had
been members of the SS, were
permitted to enter the coun-
try almost indiscriminately
between 1945 and 1950.
According to the report, the
British government deliber-
ately ignored the background
of thousands of Nazi war
criminals and collaborators
because it was anxious to
recruit scientists, sources of
intelligence and laborers for
its mines and farms.
"The examination of Bri-
tish labor recruitment policy,"
notes the report, "has reveal-
ed an often willful neglect of
elementary political and sec-
urity checks."
An example of this attitude
was contained in a memoran-
dum written in January 1947
by a Foreign Office official
who expressed concern that
before too long "other coun-
tries will have skimmed the
cream of the displaced per-
sons, especially the Balts who
are undoubtedly the elite of
the refugees."
Indeed, thousands of former
SS men from the Baltic
republics were recruited and
brought to Britain in an
operation code-named "West-
ward Ho." Among these were
former concentration camp
guards and members of the
einsatzgruppen
mobile
death squads.
At the time, Lord Jowitt,
then lord chancellor — effec-
tively the most senior legal
figure in Britain — conceded
that several hundred German
—
"I am willing to
risk their being
Nazis — and I
think they
probably are as
long as they are
highly skilled
technicians who
will teach our
people something
which they
previously did not
know."
scientists who entered Bri-
tain had highly questionable
war records. Many, it was
alleged, had spent the war
working for German firms
which used concentration
camp inmates as slave labor.
Lord Jowitt was unmoved:
"I am willing to risk their
being Nazis — and I think
they probably are — as long
as they are highly skilled
technicians who will teach
our people something which
they previously did not know,"
he said in the House of Lords.
According to the report, one
group of Latvians was allow-
ed to settle in Britain as
miners precisely because they
had been members of the SS.
This led to some embarrass-
ment when their British col-
leagues objected to working
alongside men who carried
under their arms the tell-tale
swastika tattoo of the SS.
The National Coal Board,
the state body which admini-
stered the mines, immediate-
ly ordered that the Latvians
be transferred to tasks which
would not require them to
remove their shirts.
On another occasion, pro-
tests were raised over noisy
SS reunions held by a group
of Ukranians. The response of
the Foreign Office in London
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