The Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals and the OSS: The Need For a New Research Agenda

Control not morality? Explaining the selective employment of Nazi war criminals by British and American intelligence agencies in occupied Germany

“…28 Almost twenty years later, Michael Salter rightly complained in the Journal of Intelligence History that many publications concerning the recruitment of Nazi war criminals still consisted of 'investigative journalism and a stream of "exposé" style books' which tended to be 'one-sided' in their negative portrayal of the recruiting intelligence services. 29 In the historiography of war criminal recruitment, much attention has been devoted to explaining exactly what happened, and the extent of it, rather than why. 30 This search for numbers can also be interpreted at least partially as a moral enquiry with the implication that the greater the amount of war criminals employed by the intelligence services, the more they can be condemned as immoral.…”