Kept secret for nearly 70 years, a trove of United Nations war crimes files made public this week contains early evidence of Nazi death camps that was smuggled out of Eastern Europe into Allied hands. “You can’t say that people didn’t know,” Plesch said. “The commission’s files contained indictments against thousands of Nazis who were then allowed to go free,” he writes. While people remember the trials of top Nazi officials at Nuremberg, the UNWCC’s pursuit of underlings has been largely forgotten. Plesch said the evidence of war crimes contained in the files “provides a whole hardware store of nails to hammer in the coffin of Holocaust denial.

Source: National Post April 18, 2017 23:48 UTC