Office of the Historian

(3) Declaration on German crimes in Poland

[522a] Declaration on German Crimes in Poland

[Quebec, August 22, 1943.]

Concerning the discussion of this subject by Roosevelt and Churchill on August 22, 1943, see ante, p. 931. No copy originating at Quebec has been found of the text agreed upon. The source text used here is the text contained in Hull’s telegram No. 758 of August 27, 1943, to the American Embassy at Moscow, which stated that the agreed text would be released simultaneously by the British and United States Governments on August 30 (740.00116 European War 1939/1107a). Concerning the communication of this text to the Soviet Government with the suggestion that the Soviet Union issue a similar declaration if it saw fit, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. i, p. 416.