Nazi camp inquiry finds succession of cover-ups

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3. It sounds like you correctly gleaned the connection to the Great Escape

I'm not sure if you got that from the review or elsewhere. Just in case, this is from the results of the review:

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33. Why were none of the culprits responsible for the crimes committed in Alderney
tried in a British court after the Second World War?

The British Government handed ‘The Alderney Case’ to the USSR on 11 September 1945, via theUNWCC; and the Soviet Union decided not to follow up with it. In late July and early August 1945 the British Foreign Office decided, unilaterally, to expand its application of the principles of the Moscow Declaration, whereby a case would be tried on the basis of 'territoriality' (i.e. the place where the atrocities had been perpetrated) to 'nationality' (i.e. the nationality of the victims of the atrocities). There was a certain logic to this - Alderney had been evacuated of almost all British subjects and the large majority of the victims were Soviet citizens. The ostensible reason given for this was that Britain wanted to try the Germans responsible for the murder of 50 British servicemen ('The Great Escape') held at Stalag Luft III. By rights, the Germans should have faced a Soviet court. The hope was that in giving the USSR 'The Alderney Case' we would get the 'Stalag Luft III Case', which we did.

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https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/664cc5d2bd01f5ed32793fc4/The_Lord_Pickles-Alderney_expert_review.pdf