Contents List of Charts and Table Introduction 1 The History 1 The History 2 Development of International Criminal Law before 1939 3 In a Reborn Poland 3.1 The Makarewicz Code (1932) 3.2 In the Universities of the Second Polish Republic 2 The Early Making of the Government-in-Exile''s War-Crimes Policy 1 The German and Soviet Crimes 2 First Protest Notes and Attempts to Win Allied Support for the Polish Proposals 3 Official Reports and the Information Campaign 4 The Government Structures Responsible for the Implementation of Polish War-Crimes Policy 4.1 Cabinet Committee for Home Affairs 4.2 The Ministry of Information and Documentation (Centre for Information and Documentation) 4.3 Ministry of the Interior 4.4 Ministry of Foreign Affairs 4.5 Inter-Ministerial Commissions for German Affairs 4.

6 The Ministry of Justice 4.7 Ministry of Preparatory Works 3 The Agency of Small States: Declaration of St. James''s Palace of 13 January 1942 1 The Draft Joint Declaration of the British Government and Governments of Occupied States 2 Conferences of Governments of Occupied States and Works on the Text of a Joint Declaration on German Crimes 3 The Declaration of St. James''s Palace 4 A Tightening of Cooperation among Governments of Occupied States 5 The Inter-Allied Commission on the Punishment of War Crimes 6 The Information Campaign of 1942: Towards a Common War-crimes Policy of the Allies4 Documenting the Crimes 1 A Systematic Approach 2 The ''German Archive'' 3 The War Crimes Office of the Polish Government-in-Exile 3.1 The Draft Decree of the President of the Republic of Poland on Gathering and Securing the Evidence of War Crimes 3.2 Polish War Crimes Office: Section for Crimes Committed against the Jewish Population 3.3 The Activities of Polish War Crimes Office Delegation in Scotland 3.4 The Establishment of Groups of Liaison Officers for War Crimes at the SHAEF 4 Investigative Commissions of the Ministry of Justice 5 The Polish Source Institute in Lund5 Legislative Works and Their Reception in Legal Circles 1 The Law vis-à-vis ''Statutory Lawlessness'' 2 The Ministry of Justice: The Concepts of Waclaw Komarnicki 2.

1 Legislation for the Transitional Period 3 Works on the Text of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Poland on Criminal Responsibility for War Crimes 3.1 Inter-Ministerial Conferences on the ''Responsibility of Germans for Criminal Offences Committed in Occupied Territories'' 3.2 Debate on the Text of the Decree in Section V for Criminal Procedure and Prisons and in the Plenary Meetings of the Legislative Works Commission 3.3 Debate on the Decree in the Plenary Meeting of the Legislative Works Commission on 29 May and 3 June 1942 3.4 Special Meeting of Section V of the Legislative Works Commission 3.5 Lex retro non agit? Debate on the Text of the Decree in the Plenary Meetings of the Council of Ministers JulyOctober 1942 3.6 Deliberations of the Legal-Political Committee of the NationalCouncil of the Republic of Poland and Redaction of the Final Text of the Decree 4 The Position of the Department of Justice of the Government Delegation for Poland, and Initiatives from Occupied Poland 4.1 Underground Courts and ''Civic Morality Code'' 4.

2 Draft Decree on the Punishment of Certain Criminal Offences Committed while under Enemy Invasion 5 The Three Decrees 6 Reception in the Legal and Academic Circles of the Émigrés 6.1 The Polish Lawyers Association in the United Kingdom 6.2 Polish Émigré Legal Associations Outside of the United Kingdom 6.3 Selected Publications 6 Cooperation between the Polish Government-in-Exile and the United Nations War Crimes Commission 1 The Works of the Cambridge Commission on Penal Development and Reconstruction and of the London International Assembly 2 The Establishment and Works of the United Nations War Crimes Commission 3 Cooperation between the Polish Government-in-Exile and the United Nations War Crimes Commission 4 Definition of War Crimes and Principles of Individual Liability 5 Characteristic of Polish Indictments 6 Evaluation of the Work of Litawski''s Office 7 Towards Nuremberg Conclusion Bibliography Index.