Editing Pursuit of Nazi collaborators (section)

== Background ==
There were a number of motives for the apprehension of suspected collaborators. The main motives were: revenge for those murdered, especially those murdered on ethnic grounds in the Holocaust (principally among [[Jew]]s, [[Polish people|Poles]], and [[Russians]]); a desire after the war to see those responsible face justice, and be categorised as criminals by a court of law (See [[Nuremberg Trials]]); a means of ensuring that criminal acts done were brought to light and placed on the official record, with evidence, so that they could never be disproven (some of the acts being so unthinkable that [[Holocaust denial|denial]] was plausible); widespread sense that genocide of whole communities and cultures on such a scale was intolerable and must not be left unprosecuted even despite the inadequacy of existing laws; and fear that a "Nazi underground" of some kind existed, such as the mythical [[ODESSA]], which could allow the enemy to somehow regroup for their proclaimed [[Fourth Reich]]. <ref>{{Citation |title=Anti-fascism |date=2023-05-27 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-fascism&oldid=1157226885 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-06-09 |language=en}}</ref>