The Christchurch Civic Creche Case
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	The Press June 26 2006 Selective evidence Letter to the Editor by Rod Maxwell, Ilam Is Defence Minister Phil Goff, who says a new book on New Zealand's war history, by Colin Cameron, puts to bed the myth that New Zealand troops knowingly massacred German medical staff and wounded men in Africa in 1942 the same Phil Goff who dismissed, without even reading, another book portraying some of New Zealand's history, namely Lynley Hood's clever analysis of the Christchurch civc creche case, A City Possessed? Obviously he is prepared to accept as gospel the writings of one person, that New Zealand soldiers did not commit crimes, but compelling evidence that another New Zealander, Peter Ellis, did not commit any crime can be brushed aside.