A file of documents relating to the War Cabinet Committee on Treatment of War Criminals set up during the Second World War to investigate Axis war crimes. Subjects discussed in this file include international law and the legal procedures involved in bringing suspected war criminals to trial; various categories of war crime; whether putting war criminals on trial was legally permissible; agitation by the Polish government in exile for a statement on German atrocities by the British parliament; requests for involvement in the committee from representatives of various occupied nations; a statement from the British government supporting a United Nations commission of investigation; Soviet announcements of the creation of their own commission to investigate German war crimes; and a Soviet suggestion that a post-war international trial be held for the accused war criminals.
- Collection ID
- FO1093
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Australia Belgium Burma China Czechoslovakia England France Germany Great Britain Greece Holland India Italy Japan Luxembourg Malaya Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Singapore South Africa Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States of America Yugoslavia
- Document Reference
- FO 1093/337/2
- Document Types
- Memorandum Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 1093/337
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.fo1093.0337.002
- Keywords
- War Criminals War Crimes International Law Nazi Leadership Intelligence Gathering Post-war Planning
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Foreign Office Permanent Under-Secretary's Department International Red Cross League of Nations United Nations
- Pages
- 102
- Persons Discussed
- Clement Attlee Alexander Cadogan Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Archibald Clark Kerr Anthony Eden Hermann Göring Adolf Hitler Stewart Menzies Vyacheslav Molotov Benito Mussolini Joachim von Ribbentrop Franklin Delano Roosevelt Josef Stalin
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Intelligence Organization International Relations Surveillance
