Amazon Prime: Getting Away with Murder(s)
Up to one million people in twenty two countries carried out the unprovoked murder of well over six million innocent men, women and children. Ninety nine percent of those responsible were never prosecuted; most were never were never questioned. Why?
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour: Liberation of Buchenwald
From the attack on Pearl Harbor to D-Day, the most pivotal events of World War II come to life in this docuseries featuring colorized footage. Episode 9 depicts when U.S. troops in Germany discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp, and how the Allies began to reckon with the unspeakable reality of the Holocaust.
US National Public Radio: War Crimes Archive Reveals Early Evidence Of Holocaust Death Camps
After almost 70 years, evidence used to prosecute Nazi-era war criminals has become public. NPR’s Kelly McEvers talks with Dan Plesch, one of the few outside researchers who’s previously seen this archive, about what can be learned from the archive.
The Guardian: Opening of UN files on Holocaust will ‘rewrite chapters of history’
“War crimes files revealing early evidence of Holocaust death camps that was smuggled out of eastern Europe are among tens of thousands of files to be made public for the first time this week…”
The Associated Press: New book says Hitler was an indicted war criminal at death
“A new book that examines previously restricted files from the U.N. War Crimes Commission cites documents showing that Adolf Hitler had been indicted as a war criminal for actions by the Nazis during World War II before his death — contrary to longstanding assumptions.
The book, “Human Rights After Hitler” by British academic Dan Plesch, says Hitler was put on the commission’s first list of war criminals in December 1944, but only after extensive debate and formal charges brought by Czechoslovakia, which had been occupied by the Nazis…”
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes, with Dan Plesch
Before Nuremberg–indeed, long before the end of the war–there was the United Nations War Crimes Commission, a little-known agency which assisted national governments in putting on trial thousands of Axis war criminals in Europe and Asia. Why do we know so little about it? “With the onset of the Cold War and the repression of civil rights in America, this whole Commission was shut down,” says Dan Plesch. Learn more about this buried history.
Associated Press (2013): Plesch helps ICC to use UNWCC archives online
“The unrestricted records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission were put online in early July by the International Criminal Court after an agreement with the U.N., a move spurred by British academic Dan Plesch, who has been leading the push for greater access to the archive…”