Punishment for War Crimes

Punishment for War Crimes was a declaration agreed the representatives of various Allied governments-in-exile after an Inter-Allied Conference at St James's Palace in London, United Kingdom on 13 January 1942. It condemned Nazi Germany for committing war crimes in German-occupied Europe and demanded post-war legal accountability.

The declaration was signed by the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Dutch, Greek, Luxembourg, Norwegian, and Yugoslav governments in exile as well as Free France.

Further reading

Fleming, Michael (2022). In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009098984.

External links

Punishment for War Crimes. The Inter-Allied Declaration Signed at St James's Palace London on 13 January 1942 (full text) at the National Library of Australia

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