Sir E. Graham Littleasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why there has been no prosecution of the German industrialists guilty of war crimes, such as conspiracy to make war and the employment and ill treatment of slave labour, similar to that now held in the United States zone; and if he will repair this omission.
§ Mr. MayhewThe major industrialists held by us and accused of conspiracy to make war have been handed over for trial at Nuremberg at the request of the American authorities. Other persons accused of crimes against humanity concerning slave labour have been (and are still being) tried in Control Commission or German Courts. Specific war crimes against slave labour have been tried by British Military Courts. Other industrialists who have profited by Nazi war-making are subject to the financial and other penalities of denazification courts.