Henry T. King
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Henry T. King Jr. (born May 27, 1919, Meriden, Connecticut) was a U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, a legal practitioner and an academic writer.
[edit] Life and work
King graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School. After World War II, he worked as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials from 1946 to 1947. He was initially assigned to the trial of the German General Staff and the High Command, preparing cases against Walther von Brauchitsch, Heinz Guderian, and Erhard Milch. King later worked on the Ministries Case and the Justice Case.[citation needed]
King later became United States Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute and Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He was a member of the American Bar Association Task force on War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia.[citation needed]
At Nuremberg, King met Albert Speer, one of the defendants at the Trial of the Major War Criminals. Some fifty years after the encounter, he wrote a book with Bettina Elles, entitled "The Two Worlds of Albert Speer. Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor".
Currently, King serves as the U.S. Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute.
[edit] Publications
- King, H. T.; Elles, B.: The Two Worlds of Albert Speer: Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor, Lanham (US-MA), University Press of America 1997. ISBN 0-7618-0872-8.
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