United Nations War Crimes Commission
- United Nations War Crimes Commission
The United Nations War Crimes Commission (initially called the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes) was a commission of the United Nations that investigated allegations of war crimes committed by the Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II.
The Commission began its work at the behest of the United States and the other Allied nations in 1943, prior to the formal establishment of the United Nations itself. The Commission had no power to prosecute war criminals by itself: it merely reported back to the governments members of the UN. These governments then could convene the tribunals, such as the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
The Commission, which was headed by British Peer Robert Alderson Wright, was dissolved in 1949.
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* [http://www.un.org/Depts/archives/datarecs.html UN archives describing the work of the Commission]
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