[skeeter]

Why wasn't anyone associated with the camps prosecuted immediately following the war? Was the act of mass murder taken more lightly then than it is now?

These contemporary prosecutions are more political than anything else, IMO.

[Mr. K]

they could not find many of them- they hid their identities

[Paddyboy]

The Allies executed over 74,000 German war criminals after the war,and even with that many still still escaped

[IYAS9YAS]

Why wasn't anyone associated with the camps prosecuted immediately following the war?

Many of these people simply disappeared in the chaos that was end-of-war/post-war Germany.

[sakic]

A lot of them were not found out until years later.