A Blind Eye to Murder?
Twelve million people were murdered in concentration camps and mass executions by the Nazis. At least 150,000 Germans were responsible. Only 35,000 have ever been convicted and now West Germany must, under her own laws, soon end further prosecutions of war criminals. Why were so many of them never prosecuted? Why were so many SS officers released without investigation?
Panorama seeks the answers from the Allied and German officers involved. Three former SS officers, who've never faced trial though convicted by the French in their absence, talk for the first time about their part in the transport of 80,000 to Auschwitz. Has there been a blind eye to murder?
Written and produced by TOM BOWER Deputy editor
ELWYN PARRY JONES
Editor CHRISTOPHER CAPRON