Court of Inquiry

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The Court of Inquiry was an Allied investigative court established in August 1944 to punish war crimes at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). There it was subordinate to the 1st General Staff Department and only started investigations into war crimes on the instructions of the SHAEF. SHAEF cooperated with the United Nations War Crimes Commission , which accepted lists of war criminals from SHAEF and forwarded them to them. Due to the large number of war crimes that SHAEF referred to the Court of Inquiry for investigation, investigations were only carried out in particularly serious cases of war crimes against US and British nationals.

literature

  • Robert Sigel: In the interests of justice. The Dachau war crimes trials 1945-48. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-593-34641-9 .