Unauthorized Entry: The Truth about Nazi War Criminals in Canada 1946- 1956
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Canada is a haven for Nazi war criminals. This accusation first levelled by war crimes advocacy groups, later corroborated by a royal commission, now reported as fact by major media outlets has become the gospel of politically-correct commentators and pundits. But is it true? In Unauthorized Entry, Howard Margolian argues convincingly that it is not. On the basis of the most thorough examination of Canada s immigration-screening system ever undertaken, he 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 refreshing and controversial 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. Unfortunately, mistakes were inevitable. Impeccably researched and engagingly written, Unauthorized Entry is sure to stimulate debate, both within the public at large and among advocacy groups on both sides of the war crimes issue.
