His Majesty’s Enemies: Great Britain’s War Against Holocaust Victims and Survivors

Itamar Levin, the journalist who uncovered the affair, describes British policy towards the Jewish people during the Holocaust era, particulary the construction of obstacles that prevented thousands from being saved. Levin then examines Britain’s intentional and unabashed use of Holocaust victims and survivors property after World War II. This book describes the affair, which is relatively unknown to the general public, but which has already been described by public figures as one of the most serious incidents of the looting of the Holocaust victims’ property. Levin documents, from the British Public Office files, the cynical manner in which His Majesty’s goverment expropriated victims’ assets in order to compensate British citizens who had claims against former enemy countries. He also describes the suffering of survivors until some of them managed, after years of struggle, to retrieve small portions of their property. He also deals with the struggle for a change in British policy which began with the publication of Levin’s investigative report in June, 1997 and which continues to the present.