NAZI WAR CRIMES
COMMITTEE'S REPORT TO LUX.
Rec. 12.40 p.m. LONDON, October 18. The Trades Union Congress adopted by a big majority a report by the British and Soviet Trades Union Committee on the treatment of Germany after the war. y The report demanded that Germans responsible for war crimes should be punished and stated that the German people could not be absolved from, all responsibility for crimes. The committee strongly opposed "the appeasement policy of those endeavour-' me to mitigate the punishment of the Hitlerite criminals," and called on the organised workers to "resist the permeation of. the trade union movement with such misguided views." Congress rejected a motion that a section of the report stating that the German people could not be absolved from blame should be referred back to the pnmmittop . : . ; i .: ..-■-...■>:■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1944, Page 7
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