Home Secretary Douglas Hurd refused to authorize a police inquiry into 17 alleged Nazi war criminals living in Britain on the grounds that the evidence presented by the Simon Wiesenthal Center was “too sketchy” and that the alleged crimes were committed outside Britain.
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