Foreign News: Enter the Lawyers

The War Crimes Commission (full title: United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes) in session in London last week was far enough along with its work to know that even the detection and punishment of "war criminals" will be no simple matter. For ordinary citizens, who think that they know a Nazi criminal when they see one, some astonishing questions were posed: >Exactly who is a war criminal?

>Who will try whom?*

>What about prize criminals who are claimed by more than one nation?

>What about Nazis like Heinrich Himmler, who may never...

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