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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherArcade Publishing
ISBN-101559708166
ISBN-139781559708166
eBay Product ID (ePID)57025755
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleWitness to Nuremberg
Number of Pages236 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Genocide & War Crimes, General
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorRichard Sonnenfeldt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-018636
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisIn this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter atthe Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. Bythe time he was 18, Sonnenfeldt had grown up in Germany, escaped toEngland, been deported to Australia as a "German enemy alien", arrived inthe U.S., and joined the U.S. army. By age 22 he had fought in the Battleof the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he wasappointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi warcriminals at the Nuremberg trials. During his service, he spent pretrialtime with Hermann Goering as well as other top Nazi leaders like vonRibbentrop, Rudolph Hoess, and Julius Streicher, the infamous editor of theanti-Semitic Der Sturmer. An engineer in later life, he was a principaldeveloper of color TV and computer technology and a key player in NASA'spreparation of the first moon shot.