Safe Haven reconsiders the nature and implementation of the 1991 War Crimes Act, to ask why and how its design, interpretation, and the restrictive criteria placed upon it allowed Nazi collaborators to escape trial in the UK.
The book Safe Haven is one that should attract several diverse audiences of readers. Former BBC reporter Jon Silverman, who covered the British Nazi War Crimes Act issue from beginning to end, and his co-author Robert Sherwood, an expert on the post-World War II prosecution of Nazi war criminals, have written an excellent history of the fate of the legislation passed in the British Parliament in Spring 1991 to enable the prosecution of Holocaust perpetrators living in the United Kingdom.