| Abstract |
This letter from Robert Jackson to the Chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission, The Lord Wright, is a supplement to the letter of the previous day, i.e., document 54.02 (Jackson letter, 5 July), and suggests that each Government represented by Wright's Commission prepare "an official summarized report" of its nationals' respective experiences under German domination during the war. Such a report would expedite the collection and assimilation of relevant evidence and facilitate its being presented to the International Military Tribunal in a succinct and effective fashion. The purpose, obviously, is to use a series of such reports to demonstrate the existence of the common plan and the defendants' participation in it. Jackson alludes to a report by the U.S. Congressional delegation investigating atrocities in concentration camps, and to a comparable report by the British Parliamentary Commission, as examples; apparently, he sent copies of these reports to Wright with this letter (neither report is present in this volume of the Donovan Archive). This document is a typewritten carbon copy of good quality on thin, browning paper. |