USA National Archive -OSS - Declassified records of WWII - Chinese Troops, US War Command Office inside Indian Territory
Background Subject : Records of the United States Commission, United Nations War Crimes Commission On October 7, 1942, the United States and Great Britain issued simultaneous declarations that a United Nations War Crimes Commission would be established to affix responsibility of individuals guilty of war crimes and to collect and evaluate all the available evidence pertaining thereto. It was also stated that upon capitulation the enemy would be required to surrender war criminals within its jurisdiction. The declarations pointed out that it was not the intention of the United Nations to resort to mass reprisals but to punish “ringleaders responsible for the organized murder of thousands of innocent persons and the commission of atrocities which have violated every tenet of the Christian faith.” To help identify war criminals, coordinate the war crimes investigations, and determine if there was sufficient evidence available to bring individuals to trial for w