Punishment for War Crimes

Third Inter-Allied Conference Punishment for War Crimes
St James' Palace, pictured in 2012
Host country	United Kingdom
Date	13 January 1942
Venue(s)	St James's Palace
Cities	London
Participants	Belgian government in exile Czechoslovak provisional government-in-exile Greek government-in-exile Luxembourg government-in-exile Dutch government-in-exile Norwegian government-in-exile Polish government-in-exile Yugoslav government-in-exile Free French National Committee
Chair	Władysław Sikorski

Punishment for War Crimes was the title of a declaration issued by the representatives of eight Allied governments-in-exile and the Free French at the third Inter-Allied Conference at St James's Palace in London, United Kingdom, on 13 January 1942. It has been described as the "first milestone" towards the creation of an international legal framework for the prosecution of war crimes in German-occupied Europe during World War II.^[1]