ABSTRACT
On 7 January 1946, the AAC’s public hearings opened at the State Department building in Washington. Before meeting in America, the British and U.S. teams had assembled in their own countries and had been briefed by officials and army officers.1 It was then that the decision was taken to open the Inquiry in America, since the Commission would thereby be “dealing with the future of the Jewish race where half the Jews in the world were.”2
