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  • 5 - The UNWCC, Law, and Inter-Allied Politics

  • Michael Fleming
  • Book:
    In the Shadow of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 144-171

  • Summary

    The chapter focuses on the development of the UNWCC from its founding in late 1943 to the summer of 1945. It analyses its position at the nexus of inter-Allied debates on war crimes and demands for post-war justice. The chapter considers the flow of legal ideas through the organisation, and how those ideas, Allied inter-relations and knowledge of war crimes encouraged several representatives at the UNWCC to adopt a more expansive conception of the organisation’s role than that initially conceived by the British Foreign Office.

  • Introduction

  • Michael Fleming
  • Book:
    In the Shadow of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 1-15

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces the United Nations War Crimes Commission and highlights its significance in relation to debates on war crimes during the Second World War. It is argued that the notion of war crimes at the start of the global conflagation was underdeveloped, and that a range of jurists, some of whom remain little known, made important contributions to developing legal knowledge that helped shape post-war war crimes prosecutions. The chapter explains the book’s focus on Poland and indicates how the Polish engagement with UNWCC can offer a fresh perspective on the emerging Cold War.

In the Shadow of the Holocaust
  • Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice
  • Michael Fleming
  • Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022
  • In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. Michael Fleming shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and, along with others, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later, from the summer of 1945, the Polish Government in Warsaw, Fleming provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War.