Unauthorized entry : the truth about Nazi war criminals in Canada, 1946-1956

Author/Creator:

Margolian, Howard, author

Publication/Creation:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2000

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Unauthorized entry : the truth about Nazi war criminals in Canada, 1946-1956 / Howard Margolian

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

War criminals--Canada
War criminals--Germany
Nazis--Canada
Refugees--Government policy--Canada
Refugees--Europe--History--20th century
Canada--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Escape -- 2 Fortress Canada -- 3 Test Cases -- 4 The Door Ajar -- 5 No Safe Haven, 1947-1951 -- 6 Exceptions That Proved the Rule -- 7 The Diminishing Threat -- 8 The Era of Risk Management, 1951-1956 -- 9 Undiplomatic Passports -- Conclusions -- APPENDIX. IMMIGRATION SCREENING AS A RESEARCH PROBLEM: THE SOURCES AND THEIR LIMITATIONS -- NOTES -- SELECTED LIST OF PRIMARY SOURCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Summary:

"In Unauthorized Entry, Howard Margolian absolves a succession of postwar governments of active complicity in the admission of ex-Nazis. Charges that Ottawa was indifferent to the problem are similarly discounted. In a departure from the conspiracy theories and the culture of historical victimization so prevalent nowadays, Margolian lays the blame where it belongs - on the war criminals themselves. Most, he points out, were Nazi collaborators who had escaped from eastern Europe or the Soviet Union, where evidence of their crimes remained inaccessible for almost fifty years. With no means to verify the statements given by these fraudulent refugee claimants, Canadian immigration authorities had to rely on their professional judgment and their instincts."--Jacket.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

General Note:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Additional Physical Form:

Issued also in print.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936785971702486

ISBN:

1-282-02607-0
9786612026072
1-4426-8283-3

OCLC Number:

652253007
1013954763
944177356
958579797
1250002069

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.3138/9781442682832