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DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10,
NARS Date 2.5.76
Secret
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT, THE SECRETARY OF
STATE, AND JUSTICE JACKSON, SETTING FORTH SOME
OBSERVATIONS WHICH MAY BE PERTINENT WITH RESPECT
TO THE TRIAL OF GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS.
It is my considered opinion that for political, economic,
and social reasons of the most primary importance, it is
essential that prompt, and as adequate punishment as the
civilized procedure to which we are attached will permit,
should be meted out to those responsible for the war and
for the carrying through of the objectives of the Nazi Party
and the Nazi German Government. I permit myself to say that
I believe that those who are responsible in our Government
today for the decisions to be taken in this respect have
a responsibility not only to our own people but to Germany
itself and to the rest of the world which must be carried
through, not only because of the immediate situations with
which we have to deal, but because on our action now will
depend so largely the character of the future problems with
which we will be confronted. The adequate punishment of these
war criminals is, I believe, an essential feature of and a
factor in the maintenance of security and peace.
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