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WITNESSING THE HOLOCAUST | Personal accounts of a crime against humanity

Tonight | Pieter Menten's War

'Tonight' on the trail of Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten.

CHANNEL | BBC1

FIRST BROADCAST | 16 June 1977

DURATION | 36 minutes 35 seconds

FIRSTBROADCAST

1977

Synopsis

This edition of the news magazine programme reports from Holland on journalist Hans Knoop's campaign to bring a notorious war criminal to justice. While serving as an SS officer in the Eastern Galicia region of Poland, art collector Menten allegedly had his men kill prominent local Jews against whom he held a grudge before turning his murderous intentions towards other members of the population, culminating in the slaughter of some 800 people.

Did you know?

After his conviction and subsequent release from prison (he served six years of a ten-year sentence), Menten planned to retire to his County Waterford mansion, but found himself banned from Ireland by Dr Garret FitzGerald, who was Taoiseach at the time. Menten died in 1987.

Contributors

Philip Tibenham
Reporter
Chaviv Kannan
Contributor
Hans Knoop
Contributor
Michael Hauptman
Contributor
Louis Kortenhorst
Contributor
Peter Van I Jzendoorn
Contributor
Pieter Menten
Contributor
Abe Polak
Contributor
Franz Rohling
Contributor

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