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How So Many Holocaust Perpetrators Got Away with It
(Times of Israel) Matt Lebovic - British filmmaker David Wilkinson's "Getting Away with Murder(s)" is a detailed indictment of how nearly all of the Holocaust's perpetrators - German war criminals and non-German collaborators - avoided accountability. "The lack of justice for the victims of the Holocaust is the greatest miscarriage of justice in the history of mankind. The world needs to know this," he said. An estimated 750,000 to one million people helped enact the Holocaust across Europe, according to historians, and fewer than 600 received heavy sentences after the war. "Most of the perpetrators lived long and often prosperous lives, even though so many were identifiable mass murderers," said Wilkinson. "At the end of World War II, at least 400 collaborators moved to Britain from the Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, and other formerly Nazi-occupied countries....One of those mass killers lived in Edinburgh. His next-door neighbors were Jewish." Wilkinson chose to have the documentary's world premiere in York, England, because in 1190 the entire Jewish population of that town was massacred by neighbors.