Delegates representing 60,000 British veterans of the London area were on record today as protesting clemency extended to Nazi war criminals in Germany.
The delegates, representing 149 British Legion branches in the London area, unanimously adopted a resolution last night at the Legion’s metropolitan area conference denouncing clemency to the convicted Nazi war criminals as “an insult to our fallen comrades and to the ideals for which we fought.”
Sir Hartley Shawcross, British Attorney General and one-time British Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, expressed opposition with “interference with the Nuremberg Judgments.” Speaking at a luncheon for foreign correspondents, Sir Hartley said that tampering with the decisions of the war crimes tribunal would vitiate the warning of the trials that mass murder will be punished.
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