War criminals
That the major Nazi war criminals should be tried was never in doubt. Who should be named, and whether a list should be published, was argued to the last days.
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30 JulyRan hottest
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- 23 July 1945Königsberg & Prussia
“To most Americans, Hirohito was the villainous symbol of Japan’s fanatical military clique. A Gallup Poll in June had shown that a mere fraction of Americans, only 7 percent, thought he should be retained after the war, even as a puppet, while a full third of the people thought he should be executed as a war criminal.” Secretary Byrnes considered any negotiations with Japan over terms of surrender a waste of time and felt that if Hirohito were to remain in place, the war…
Read it in place → - 26 July 1945The Potsdam Declaration
We-the President of the United States, the President of the National Government of the Republic of China, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree that Japan shall be given an opportunity to end this war.The prodigious land, sea and air forces of the United States, the British Empire and of China, many times reinforced by their armies and air fleets from the west, are poised to strike the final…
Read it in place → - 30 July 1945The Little Three
“The Conference has found it necessary to organize in the very near future an International Tribunal for the trial of the important war criminals whose crimes are not connected with a definite geographical location and who, in accordance with the Moscow Declaration of November 1, 1943, are not to be sent to the countries in which their crimes were committed, to be tried according to the laws of these countries. The Conference has decided that the International Tribunal,…
Read it in place → - 31 July 1945Settling The Polish Question
After talking briefly about prosecuting Nazi war criminals and whether or not the Allies should list names when compiling their list of whom to prosecute, the Big Three decided to wait and discuss it – along with the future of Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary – tomorrow, in addition to tying up any loose ends that needed to be addressed. The Foreign Ministers would meet in the morning, prepare an agenda, and present it to the Big Three tomorrow afternoon.
Read it in place → - 1 August 1945The Long Last Day
The British favored a lenient approach, both to minimize the risks of the occupation and to lay a foundation for the future of Anglo-German cooperation. Anthony Eden drafted a note for Churchill at the beginning of the Conference that contained only ten names for prosecution: Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, who had been in British custody since his bizarre flight to Scotland in 1941; Robert Ley,…
Read it in place → - 2 August 1945The Conference Ends
Meanwhile, Germany would remain divided into four zones under Allied occupation – which was in effect, divided down the middle between East and West. A complete demilitarization of the German state was agreed to and Nazi war criminals were indisputably to be brought to justice in Nuremburg, the city in which they rallied for terror for so many years. And by a complicated formula for reparations, the Soviet Union got the lion’s share – mainly in capital equipment – in view of…
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