Bruce Macdonald
The Macdonald Papers ~ War Crimes
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From August 1944 to May 1945 Macdonald was the Canadian representative on the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) Court of Inquiry on War Crimes and investigated reports of offences against Allied troops taken prisoner by the German Armed Forces.  For the last three months of the War in Europe, Macdonald served as president of the investigative body.  In 1945 he was appointed commanding officer of the newly established Number One Canadian War Crimes Investigation Unit.  Macdonald also acted as Chief Prosecutor of War Criminals for the Canadian Armed Forces. Acting in this capacity, he successfully prosecuted S.S. Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer in December 1945 for directing his troops to deny quarter to Allied prisoners, as well as being responsible for the killing of Canadian prisoners of war at Meyer’s headquarters at Abbaye Ardenne, near Caen, France.  

Whatever happened to Kurt Meyer?

 

Lt-Col. Clarence S. Campbell, Lt.-Col. Bruce Macdonald, and Lt.-Col. Dalton G. Dean

 

Archive photo: PC/6306

Lt-Col. Clarence S. Campbell, Lt.-Col. Bruce Macdonald, and Lt.-Col. Dalton G. Dean (1945?)

S. S. Brigadefuher Kurt Meyer

 

Archives photo: PC/6329

S. S. Brigadefuher Kurt Meyer in Uniform, (1944 or 1945.)

Kurt Meyer being taken for a walk

 

Archives photo: PC/6349

Kurt Meyer being taken for a walk.

Kurt Meyer in his Jail cell 

 

Archives photo: PC/6345 

S. S. Brigadefuher Kurt Meyer in his Jail cell at Aurich, 1945.

Kurt Meyer in the court room

 

PC/6353 - Kurt Meyer in the court room with his officer escort.

Ancienne Abbaye d'Ardenne, where Canadian war prisoners were killed

 

Archives photo: PC/6456

Ancienne Abbaye d'Ardenne, where Canadian war prisoners were killed.

Court room during the trial of  S.S. Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer

 

Archives photo: PC/6361

Court room during the trial of  S.S. Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer, 1945.

The enlisted men's sleeping quarters at the German prisoner of war camp

Archives photo: PC/6372

The enlisted men's sleeping quarters at the German prisoner of war camp, Stalag 7-A (1945.)

 

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