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Volume 19, Fall 2006
Nuremberg Trials 60th Anniversary
Chief Prosecutors


Introduction
Section 1
Background and Preparation for the Nuremberg Trials
Section 2
Proceedings
Defendants
Chief Prosecutors
Highlights of the Military Tribunal
Examination of Goering
Testimonies
Verdicts and Sentences
The Executions
Section 3
Twelve Subsequent Trials

Prosecution Counsel

Altogether there were over 680 prosecutors. They are too numerous to name.

The members of the prosecution counsel who spoke before the Tribunal.

United States of America

Chief of Counsel:
Mr. Justice Robert H. Jackson

Executive Trial Counsel:
Colonel Robert G, Storey
Mr. Thomas J. Dodd

Associate Trial Counsel:
Mr. Sidney S. Alderman
Brigadier General Telford Taylor
Colonel John Harlan Amen
Mr. Ralph G. Albrecht

Assistant Trial Counsel:
Colonel Leonard Wheeler, Jr.
Lieutenant Colonel William H. Baldwin
Lieutenant Colonel Smith W. Brockhart, Jr.
Commander James Britt Donovan, U.S.N.R.
Major Frank B. Wallis
Major William F. Walsh
Major Warren F. Farr
Captain Samuel Harris
Captain Drexel A. Sprecher
Lieutenant Commander Whitney R. Harris, U.S.N.R
Lieutenant Thomas F. Lambert, Jr., U.S.N.R.
Lieutenant Henry K. Atherton
Lieutenant Brady O Bryson, U.S.N.R.
Lieutenant (j. g.) Bernard D. Meltzer, U.S.N.R
Dr. Robert M. Kempner
Mr. Walter W. Brudno



Justice Robert Jackson and members of the
prosecution team at the Nuremberg Trials, Germany.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Chief Prosecutor:
H.M. Attorney General, Sir Harley Shawcross, K.C., M.P.

Deputy Chief Prosecutor:
The Rt. Hon. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, P.C., K.C., M.P,

Leading Counsel:
Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C., O.B.E,

Junior Counsel:
Lieutenant Colonel J. M. G. Griffith-Jones, M.C, Barrister-at-Law
Colonel H. J. Phillimore, O.B.E., Barrister-at-Law
Major F. Elwyn Jones, M.P., Barrister-at-Law
Major J. Harcourt Barrington, Barrister-at-Law

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Chief Prosecutor:
General R. A. Rudenko

Deputy Chief Prosecutor:
Colonel Y. V. Pokrovsky

Assistant Prosecutors:
State Counselor of Justice of the 2nd Class, L. R. Shenin
State Counselor of Justice of the 2nd Class, M. Y Raginsky
State Counselor of Justice of the 3rd Class, N. D. Zorya
Chief Counselor of Justice, L. N. Smirnov
Colonel D. S, Karev
Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Ozol
Captain V. V. Kuchin

French Republic

Chief Prosecutor:
M. Francois de Menthon
M. Auguste Champetier de Ribes

Deputy Chief Prosecutors:
M. Charles Dubost
M. Edgar Faure

Assistant Prosecutors (Chiefs of Sections):
M. Pierre Mounier
M. Charles Gerthoffer
M. Delphin Debenest

Assistant Prosecutors:
M. Jacques B. Herzog,
M. Henry Delpech
M. Serge Fuster
M. Constant Quatre
M. Henri Monneray

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