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The President.
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6/6/45.
Stalin. It does not include localized cases of any kind. Accordingly,
in visiting the European theater, I attempted to establish standards
to segregate from our case against the principal offenders, cases against
many other offenders and to expedite their trial. These cases fall into
three principal classes:
1. The first class comprises offenses against military personnel
of the United States - such, for example, as the killing of American
airmen who crash-landed, and other Americans who became prisoners of
war. In order to insure effective military operation, the field forces
from time immemorial have dealt with such offenses on the spot. Autho-
rization of this prompt procedure, however, had been withdrawn because
of the fear of stimulating retaliation through execution of captured
Americans on trumped-up charges. The surrender of Germany and libera-
tion of our prisoners has ended that danger. The morale and safety of
our own troops and effective government of the control area seemed to
require prompt resumption of summary dealing with this type of case.
Such proceedings are likely to disclose evidence helpful to the case
against the major criminals and will not prejudice it in view of the
measures I have suggested to preserve evidence and to prevent premature
execution of those who are potential defendants or witnesses in the
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major case.
country
I flew to Paris and Frankfort and conferred with Generals
Eisenhower, Smith, Clay, and Betts, among others, and arranged to have
a representative on hand to clear questions of conflict in any particu-
lar case. We also arranged an exchange of evidence between my staff
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