Nazis in Australia

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The incredible story of the special investigations unit that tracked down the Nazis who called Australia home after World War II.</span></h2><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In 1986 journalist Mark Aarons presented a Radio National series which established that a significant number of Nazi collaborators and war criminals - particularly from Ukraine Latvia Lithuania and Yugoslavia - had settled in Australia after World War II.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Aarons' explosive reporting led to the formation in 1987 of the Special Investigations Unit which investigated over 800 suspected war criminals living in Australia. This book gathers the recollections of historians archaeologists police investigators SIU leaders translators and lawyers to create a detailed insiders' account of the unit's efforts to prosecute Australian residents and citizens believed to have participated in horrific war crimes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The SIU left an important legacy. As well as pursuing justice for victims of the Holocaust it demonstrated that historical investigation of war crimes was possible even decades later. In the words of former SIU director Graham Blewitt 'Australia should be proud that for a brief period in our legal history we stood up and did the right thing. There was a time when Nazi collaborators living in Australia were wondering when the SIU knock on the door would come.'</span></p>