The World Jewish Congress today submitted a mamorandum to the U.N. International Law Commission now convening in Genava, Switzerland proposing that crimes against humanity, whether or not committed in connection with war, should be included in the international code being prepared by the Commission.
The W.J.C. memorandum also stressed the necessity for establishing deprivation of property on the scale practiced by Germany as an international crime and detailed a number of additional provisions required to make acts committed by the Nazis established crimes under international law, so as to avoid recurrence in the future. In its memorandum, the W.J.C. based its proposals on the precedents established in Nuremberg, not only by the International Military Tribunal but also in the subsequent series of eleven trials of other top Nazis.
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