Filling in for governments: chasing war criminals

Considers the post-World War II history of locating and prosecuting Nazi war criminals, highlighting the efforts of people like Simon Wiesenthal and Serge Klarsfeld and singling out the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann as a significant turning-point. The records of Austria, the former Soviet Union, France, Sweden, Canada, Australia and Germany itself in this area are assessed and mostly found wanting.