soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"Dave Wilma" wrote in message
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>I want to do some research into war crimes investigations in Germany,
> particularly incidents in which German civilians were alleged to have
> murdered downed Allied airmen. What agency conducted these
> investigations and where would those records be archived now?

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg 1945-46 appears
to be the only international body that prosecuted war crimes.
All other investigations were by one of the four Occupying Powers
(and from the 1950s onward by the BDR and DDR governments of
the two Germanies) so each of these six jurisdictions had its own
records and archives system. Some historical narratives of WW2
include postwar prosecution of crimes. E.g. Paul Brickhill's The
Great Escape has an appendix on the postwar hunt by British
authorities (in all occupation zones of Germany and Austria) for
murderers of the escapers from Stalag Luft III. Presumably British
and US archives are the likely places to seek postwar inquiries
into the lynching of shot-down airmen.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)