Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
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4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In 1999, the UK’s first and only war crimes trial for murder perpetrated during the Holocaust took place. The extraordinary court case brought back together the interwoven lives of two childhood friends from Belarus. Tragically, one would be the main witness to the atrocities that their friend committed, and the other would be the accused war criminal—a man who had worked at a London tube station for decades.
In this episode, James chats to Mike Anderson and Neil Hanson, the authors of an incredible new book on the little-known case—'The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial'. What an astonishing story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to warfare I'm your host James Rogers and it is |
| 0:04.2 | 2022 the first month of the year is rocketing by but I hope you've had a great start |
| 0:09.6 | to the new year we've got so many exciting episodes coming up that will take us all around the world |
| 0:14.9 | but this episode focuses back in on the UK in 1999 when the UK's first and only war crimes |
| 0:21.7 | trial for murder perpetrated during the Holocaust took place. |
| 0:25.8 | It's an extraordinary story that brings together the interwoven lives of two childhood friends. |
| 0:32.2 | Tragically, one would be the main witness of the atrocities that their friend committed, |
| 0:37.2 | and the other would be the accused war criminal. To tell us all about this history, |
| 0:42.0 | we have the authors of a fascinating new book called The Ticket Collector from Belarus, an extraordinary true story of Britain's only war crimes trial. |
| 0:52.0 | This is Mike Anderson and Neil Hanson. Together they take us through |
| 0:55.3 | their intense and deep investigation to unearth the truth behind this astonishing case. Hi Mike and Neil welcome to the History Hit Warfare Podcast. How you both doing today? |
| 1:19.0 | Perfect, really good. |
| 1:21.0 | Yep, excited about a new year. Yes, excited about it. A new year. |
| 1:23.0 | Yes, a new year and a new book. |
| 1:26.0 | Do we have any new year's resolutions between us here? |
| 1:29.0 | Sell more books is mine. |
| 1:31.0 | Sell more books. |
| 1:32.0 | Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Good one. I think for me it's about seeing the story through. It's my first book but it's been a real passion project. So it isn't just a book for me. It's out of my soul if you cut me in half the story you know the |
| 1:46.1 | words in the middle of me basically yes I am really keen to get into your personal |
| 1:52.1 | connection to this story and how you found out about this history as well. |
| 1:56.8 | Let's start with a bit of a broader look at this because today still in 2022 we hear a former Nazis being put on trial and we've had great |
| 2:06.5 | episodes in the past with people like Eric Blough on the Nazis next door and how so many |
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