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Unearthing World War II mass graves and the Boston bombing

The History Hour

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The Australian's Experience in the War Crimes Trial of Ivan Poliokovich

Archaeologist Richard Wright flew halfway around the world to unearth a mass grave in Sainte, Ukraine as part of an Australian Nazi war crimes investigation. The victims were Jewish people who were murdered by Nazis in the early 1940s during World War II. What he found was used in the war crimes trial of Ivan Poliokovich, a Nazi war crimes suspect who'd fled to Australia. Plus the IRA targeting of the British Grand National Horse Race and the hunt for Boston Marathon bombers.

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