Historians, researchers call for release of all documents about Nazi war criminals in Canada, including Part 2 of the Deschênes Commission report
Dozens of leading scholars from around the world are urging the Canadian government to release a secret report containing the names of around 900 alleged war criminals who settled here after the Second World War.stakeholders on whether to release Part 2 of the 1986 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada led by retired Superior Court of Quebec judge Jules Deschênes.
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, a German-Polish historian at the Freie Universität Berlin, said the report should be published in “an unredacted form.” Prof. Breitman, who served as its director of historical research, with other historians and archivists, helped to locate classified U.S. records that cast light on Nazi war crimes and war criminals, as well as the experience of Holocaust victims and survivors.
More than 70 academics from around the world have signed a petition asking Ottawa to release all documents about Nazi war criminals in Canada, including Part 2 of the Deschênes Commission report. “The question is not why all the files related to Nazi war criminals in Canada should be released in 2024, but why not?” Ms. Chatterley told The Globe. “It may be that this is a big embarrassment for the government of Canada. Perhaps it will be a real scandal. So be it. Let the chips fall where they may. Honesty is the best policy in life and in government and scholarship.”
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