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The United Nations War Crimes Commission, initially called the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, was a commission of the United Nations that investigated allegations of war crimes committed by Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers in World War II. The Commission began its work at the behest of the British government〔Effie Pedaliu (2004). (Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48. (JStor.org preview) ) Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503-529〕 and the other Allied nations in 1943, prior to the formal establishment of the United Nations itself, in October, 1945. The announcement of the establishment of the Commission was made by the Lord Chancellor John Simon in the House of Lords on October 7, 1942:
A similar statement was issued by the United States government.〔(Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Statement on the Plan to Try Nazi War Criminals.," October 7, 1942. )〕 One of the Commission's tasks was to carefully collect evidence of war crimes for the arrest and fair trial of alleged Axis war criminals. However, the Commission had no power to prosecute criminals by itself. It merely reported back to the government members of the UN. These governments then could convene tribunals, such as the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The Commission, which was headed by British Peer Robert Alderson Wright, was dissolved in 1949. ==References== * (UNWCC Finding Aid ) * (Finding Aids of UN Predecessor Organizations held at UN Archives ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Nations War Crimes Commission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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