John Pehle person
also: John Peel, P-E-H-L-E
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John Pehle appointed
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“the recently appointed chief of the U.S. War Refugee Board. Peel went directly to the acting Secretary of State, Edward Stetinius, who had taken over for the ailing Cordell Hall. Peel said that the War Refugee Board needed a public U.S. com…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 11 @ 20:03
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▶ 19:36
On the legal front, Morgenthau strongly backed Pell's insistence that Nazis must be punished for crimes against Axis civilians and that tough immediate action be taken immediately to rescue Hungarian Jews that were on their way to Auschwitz…
▶ 20:03
the recently appointed chief of the U.S. War Refugee Board. Peel went directly to the acting Secretary of State, Edward Stetinius, who had taken over for the ailing Cordell Hall. Peel said that the War Refugee Board needed a public U.S. com…
▶ 26:20
As he saw his task, he was to defer action once again on war crimes issue until the war was over, thereby avoiding reprisals against the US POWs. In other words, he's taking his marching orders from State Department. He did not intend to de…
▶ 27:42
in both Auschwitz and other camps, unquote. Bernays' professional concern was primarily for European businesses, and they used the US POWs as the excuse. Bernays and the War Department did not create a war crimes prosecution strategy under …