ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the hit-and-miss character of screening out alleged war criminals from the massive post-war displaced persons population, by both Allied military authorities and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. It shows how some perpetrators were able to hide within the displaced mass, refashioning their biographies for resettlement; others emphasised the nationalist and anti-communist aspects of their collaboration in order to escape retribution, and even to be forgiven and protected. This chapter shows how the International Refugee Organisation acted as a massive clearing house between the displaced persons, who had been in effect offered general absolution, and the countries of resettlement, who would profit from their labour.
