- 99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
- Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of over six million innocent men, women and children. The Allies knew where a great many of the murderers could be found - Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and numerous countries in South America. The Allies unanimously agreed to prosecute those responsible when they drew up The London Agreement in August 1945, but, after the late 1940s, these very same Allies did almost nothing. Why were so many were actively permitted to get away with their crimes?—Canon y mus
- Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of millions of innocent men, women and children.
99% of those responsible were never prosecuted; most were never even questioned.
The Allies knew what their crime was.
The Allies knew where a great many of the murderers could be found - Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and numerous countries in South America.
The Allies had an endless wealth of evidence to present to the courts.
The Allies unanimously agreed to prosecute those responsible when they drew up The London Agreement in August 1945.
But, after the late 1940s, these very same Allies did almost nothing.
Why?
Director David Wilkinson's sole motivation for making GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER(S) was to find out precisely why so many were actively permitted to get away with their crime(s) - the crime of mass murder on an industrial scale.
A simple question. He knew long before he began filming that the answer would be more than complex.
Wilkinson's journey takes him all over the UK, then to Ireland, the USA, the killing fields of Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic, to the infamous death camp Auschwitz - Birkenau in Poland, Austria, France and, of course, Germany.
The narrative leads with interviews, including with the 100-year-old Benjamin B Ferencz, who is the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Professor Mary Fulbrook, Dr Dan Plesch, Holocaust survivors Kitty Hart-Moxon, Malka Levine, Arek Hersh, Nazi hunter Dr Stephen Ankier, British broadcaster and writer Robin Lustig, German prosecutor Jens Rommel, Holocaust educator and campaigner Philip Rubenstein and Holocaust memorial co-founder and humanitarian campaigner Dr James Smith.
30th September - 1st October 2021 is the 75th Anniversary of the sentencing of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the only trial to involve all the London Agreement's joint signatories. It reached its confident conclusion and meted out the specific justice that mankind had anticipated. However, only a very few of the perpetrators were put on trial. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER(S) looks at what followed.
Despite the extensive documentary coverage of the Holocaust to date, not one film has explored in any depth the almost total lack of justice, statistically, towards the vast numbers of eagerly participating perpetrators who, at war's end, simply walked away - untouched by justice. This film addresses this glaring omission.
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