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of the Office of Strategic Services, Sidney Alderman, General Solicitor
for the Southern Railway and Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea
to assist him. Material compiled by various government units, including
the War Crimes Office, established by the State, War and Navy Departments;
the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, Department of Jus-
tice units including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the legal staff
of the State Department and others was made available to him and his staff.
He went to Europe and conferred with General Eisenhower and others and on
June 7th submitted a preliminary report to the President on the progress
of his work. (4)
The international military tribunal was formally established on
August 8, 1945, under an agreement signed at London by representatives of
the United States, Great Britain, Russia and France. A charter was adopted,
setting up the court, establishing jurisdiction and procedures for trying
and punishing the war criminals and authorizing the Commission to prepare
an indictment and present evidence. The Governments of nineteen (19) other
United Nations later expressed their adherence to the agreement.
The tribunal consisted of four members, each with an alternate, rep-
resenting the four major powers, the United States, Great Britain, Russia
and France, who sat as judges during the trial. The President, by executive
order (5) on September 24, 1945, appointed Francis Biddle as the United
States member and John J. Parker as alternate.
The trials were conducted at Nurnberg, Germany, beginning November 20,
1945. On September 30th and October 1st, 1946, the Tribunal handed down
its verdict. Nineteen of the twenty-two defendants were found guilty on
one or more of the counts and three were acquitted. Twelve were sentenced
to be hanged, three to imprisonment for life, and four others to long terms
of imprisonment.
HARR
GOVERNMENT
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