Punishment of War Criminals: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. J. Res. 93, a Joint Resolution Requesting the President to Appoint a Commission to Cooperate with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, Or Any Other Agency Or Agencies of the United Nations in the Preparation of Definite Plans for the Punishment of War Criminals of the Axis Countries. March 22 and 26, 1945

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Considers (79) H.J. Res. 93.

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