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50th Anniversary of the ITS: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Tracing Service in Arolsen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Paul Reynard
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The International Committee of the Red Cross was very pleased when the management and administration of the International Tracing Service (ITS) were transferred to it on 6 June 1955. In his address during the signing ceremony, the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Konrad Adenauer, congratulated the ICRC on its willingness “to take over this task in accordance with the spirit of the Geneva Conventions”. In reply the President of the ICRC, Mr. Paul Ruegger, thanked the Federal German Chancellor and representatives of the member States of the International Commission for the ITS for the reliance placed in his institution.

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International Committee of the Red Cross
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 33 , Special Issue 296: International Conference for the Protection of War Victims , October 1993 , pp. 457 - 463
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1993

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References

1 “Le Service International de Recherches” (The International Tracing Service), Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge (RICR), No. 440, August 1955, p. 517. (The Review was not published in English until April 1961.)

2 Marguerite Frick-Cramer, “Le CICR et les conventions Internationales pour les prisonniers de guerre et les civils” (The ICRC and the international conventions for prisoners of war and civilians), Part 2, RICR, No. 295, 07 1943, p. 568.Google Scholar

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4 Ibid., p. 508.

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6 Ibid., p. 574.

7 Report of the ICRC on its Activities during the Second World War, Vol.II, The Central Agency for Prisoners of War, p. 309.Google Scholar

8 Report of the ICRC, op. cit., p. 312 Google Scholar. See also (a) the correspondence between Mrs. Marguerite Frick-Cramer and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, member of the Inter-Allied Post-War Requirements Bureau, London, 8 December 1943 (ICRC archives, G 86); (b)the extract from the notes on the discussions of Mr. C.J. Burckhardt and Miss Suzanne Ferrière with Mr. Royall Tyler, special attaché to the United States Legation in Berne, 14 November 1944 (ICRC archives, G 86).

9 Ibid., p. 313.

10 Ibid., p. 313.

11 Ibid., pp. 313–314.

12 Roehrich, Pierre, L'esprit et le caur, récit d'un engagement au service des organisations internationales (BIT, CICR, OIR), Geneva, June 1991, p. 105 (ICRC library, 362.191./1088).

13 Roehrich, , op. cit., p. 106.Google Scholar

14 Ibid., p. 108.

15 Ibid., p. 116.

16 “Le Service International de Recherches”, op. cit., p. 515.Google Scholar

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