The Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, more commonly known as CROWCASS, was an organisation set up to assist the

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War Crimes Commission and

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governments in tracing ex-enemy nationals suspected of committing war crimes or atrocities in Europe during the

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. The organisation was originally set up by the

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF; ) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander in SHAEF th ...

(SHAEF) in 1945.Guy Walters, ''Hunting evil'', Penguin Random House, 2009, (), chap. 2, p. 65-80. In 1947, CROWCASS published a four volume list divided into Germans, Non Germans and two supplementary lists of people suspected of committing war crimes between September 1939 and May 1945. To Allied Nazi hunters the CROWCASS lists became known as the 'Nazi Hunter's Bible'. The lists contain over 60,000 people in all. Not all of them are war criminals (some were simply being sought for interrogation or to act as witnesses), however within the pages of CROWCASS are the alleged perpetrators of tens of thousands of war crimes. Among those on the list are Case Registry No 1:

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- wanted for murder by

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Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

and

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. In 2005, the

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government sanctioned the publication of the CROWCASS Consolidated Wanted Lists. Originally the lists were not intended to be in the public domain until the year 2023.

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* Simpson, Christopher. ''Blowback: The first full account of America's recruitment of Nazis, and its disastrous effects on our domestic and foreign policy'', Chapter 6 'CROWCASS' pp. 66–79, 1988, Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company. 398 pp. * ''The Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, Consolidated Wanted Lists'' (1947), 2005, The Naval and Military Press, Uckfield {{DEFAULTSORT:Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects International judicial organizations Organizations established in 1945

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