greatest detective story in history: the BBC, the International Tracing Service and the memory of Nazi war crimes in early post-war Britain.
TitleThe greatest detective story in history: the BBC, the International Tracing Service and the memory of Nazi war crimes in early post-war Britain.
Author
Call numberP940.53161/036
Object number11325
Place of publicationBloomington, Indiana, United States
PublisherIndiana University Press
Year of publication
2017
Physical description26p.
MaterialLoose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal 'History and memory', vol. 29, No.2 Fall/Winter 2017 pp63-89
Description
This article uses the 1950 radio play by Dan Burgess, 'The greatest detective story in history', to focus on the operation of the International Tracing Service's (ITS) child search branch and the way in which the Third Reich was understood in Britain in the post-war years.