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Premier Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt at the
close of that conference, asserted that at the time of the granting of
any armistice to any government set up in Germany, the German officers
and men and members of the Nazi party responsible for atrocities would
be returned to the countries in which the crimes were committed in order
that they might be punished "according to the laws of these liberated
countries and of the free governments which would be created therein."
The statement said however, that the declaration was "without prejudice
to the case of major criminals, whose offenses have no particular geo-
graphical localization and who would be punished by joint decisions of the
(3a)
governments of the Allies." The President, in his statement announcing
the appointment of Justice Jackson (1) cited this joint statement and
pointed out that it was primarily for the trial and prosecution of the
major criminals that Jackson was being appointed.
Immediately after the appointment, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman went to
San Francisco as the personal representative of the President, to present
to representatives of Great Britain, Russia and France, gathered there for
the United Nations Conference, proposals of the United States concerning
the prosecution and trial of the Axis war criminals. His purpose was to
arrange for the organization of an international military tribunal and for
the adoption of a procedure for the trials. It was not contemplated that
this tribunal would be concerned with those criminals guilty of specific
atrocities in any of the occupied countries but rather with those major
criminals referred to in the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin declaration of
November 1, 1943, whose offenses had no particular "geographical locali-
zation".
Justice Jackson began the organization of his staff and on May 16th
announced the appointment of Major General William J. Donovan, Director
HARR)
ARCNIVES AND
RECORDS
GOVERNMENT
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