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Patricia vander Elst was 21 years old when she was a simultaneous interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials after being recruited whilst a student at the Geneva School of Interpreters. The Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany began on November 20, 1945 and ended on October 1, 1946 held by Allied forces after World War II for the prosecution of members within the Nazi leadership. Elst was there during the last four months of the trial and she explains how difficult it was to hear about the war crimes: “I was 21 when I started at the trial and I was ten years older when I left”–describing how exposure to the grim and sinister facts of the trials drained her of her youthful innocence.

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U.S. veteran Gerald M. Boe, the guard for Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg Trials, shares his memories of that time. Göring was one of the surviving leaders of the Third Reich and the highest-ranking Nazi to be tried at the Nuremberg Trials where he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. Boe would have to frequently tell Göring to sit-down because he was “ranting and raving about the sentence that he got.” The night before Göring’s sentencing to death by hanging was to be carried out, Boe recalls how Göring took the cyanide pill that was smuggled into his cell–committing suicide. The Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany began on November 20, 1945 and ended on October 1, 1946 held by Allied forces after World War II for the prosecution of members within the Nazi leadership.

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Bill Boving, who served in the U.S. infantry during World War II, recalls his time as a guard during the Nuremberg Trials. Boving sat in on some of the days and mentions how it dragged on for a long time–noting that some people after a few months felt it was just a “job” to be there and less “the greatest trial in history,” as it was described by Norman Birkett, a British judge presiding over the military tribunals. The Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany began on November 20, 1945 and ended on October 1, 1946 held by Allied forces after World War II for the prosecution of members within the Nazi leadership.

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Participant of the Nuremberg trials, Alfred Steer, describes witnessing Hermann Göring’s cross-examination by the presiding judge, Robert H. Jackson. Göring was one of the surviving leaders of the Third Reich and the highest-ranking Nazi to be tried at the Nuremberg Trials. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. Steer oversaw the language division in charge of translating the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials. In this first-person account, he recalls a time when he and his colleague Sieg Roth tried to print the trial records in a magazine in Germany. The Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany began on November 20, 1945 and ended on October 1, 1946. It was held by Allied forces after World War II for the prosecution of members within the Nazi leadership.

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