The Soviet Hunt for War Criminals Who Fled to the West
Year: 2023

Abstract Chapter 2 recounts the relentless pursuit of war criminals by the Soviet Union after the Extraordinary State Commission had recorded hundreds of thousands of crimes in the occupied territories and listed the names of those believed to have been responsible. It explores Soviet extradition requests to the UK beginning in 1947 and continuing into the 1980s. Although all were rejected on the grounds that a suspect could not get a fair trial under the Soviet system, this chapter discloses so