Author: Hyfler/RosnerHyfler/Rosner Date: Feb 12, 2007 20:39
From The Times (UK)
February 13, 2007
Bernard Meltzer
Nuremberg prosecutor who brought direction to the charges of
crimes against humanity over the death camps
November 21, 1914 - January 4, 2007
"From a lawyer's standpoint it was a dream," Bernard Meltzer
once remarked of his time as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg
trials, "but from a humanist standpoint it was a nightmare."
He was referring to the atrocities committed by the leading
Nazis, which shocked the world when outlined by Meltzer and
his fellow American lawyers in 1945-46. Latterly, however,
as he became one of the last survivors of that team, he
revealed that the management of the case had also frequently
appalled him.
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