greatest detective story in history: the BBC, the International Tracing Service and the memory of Nazi war crimes in early post-war Britain.
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The greatest detective story in history: the BBC, the International Tracing Service and the memory of Nazi war crimes in early post-war Britain.
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Call numberP940.53161/036
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]11325
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Bloomington, Indiana, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Indiana University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2017
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]26p.
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Loose-leaf
NotesArticle from the journal 'History and memory', vol. 29, No.2 Fall/Winter 2017 pp63-89
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.