Whitney Robson Harris Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Whitney Harris was born on August 12, 1912 in Seattle, Washington, USA as Whitney Robson Harris. He was married to Anna Galakatos and Jane Foster. He died on April 21, 2010 in Frontenac, Missouri, USA.
On October 15, 1946 where the convicted war criminals were executed: The bodies were burned in ovens which had been designed, and used, for Dachau prisoners.
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On the War Crimes Tribunals: We should not fear to establish the principles of law which will permit civilization to survive.
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He is survived by his second wife, Anna Galakatos, one son from his first marriage, three stepsons, and one stepdaughter.
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After the Nuremberg Trials, he served as Chief of Legal Advice during the Berlin Blockade before returning home to become professor of law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas as well as director of the Hoover Commission's Legal Services Task Force and the first Executive Director of the American Bar Association.
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At The International Military Tribunal, which took place between November 1945 and October 1946, where he had indicted 24 Nazi officials with 21 tried, one in absentia, 18 convicted and 3 acquitted. On the night of October 15, 1946, 10 of the convicted were hanged, he was there to represent the prosecution.
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He also helped in the cross-examination of Hermann Göring, Hitler's second-in-command and designated successor, but Göring evaded the hangman's noose by taking cyanide just before he was due to face execution.
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At the Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany, he was the lead prosecutor and chiefly responsible for the prosecution of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the most senior surviving leader and former Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office), and against two of its main agencies, the Gestapo and the SD, or security service. In order to obtain evidence against Kaltenbrunner, he participated in the three-day interrogation of the former Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, who claimed unapologetically that 2.5 million people had been exterminated under his supervision.
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After the Pearl Harbour attack in December 1941, he joined the United States Navy and was recruited to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He joined the Allied war crimes legal team as the war in Europe came to a close, working and becoming the principal aide to, the United States chief prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson.
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He was the son of a car salesman and graduated from the University of Washington in 1933 and earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936.
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He was the last surviving member of the three-man US legal team that prosecuted high-ranking Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, and he later became a voice in the founding of the International Criminal Court.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nuremberg
2000
TV Mini-Series thanks - 2 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
2006
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - US Prosecutor
Görings letzte Schlacht - Das Tribunal von Nürnberg
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
American Experience
2006
TV Series documentary
Himself - Prosecutor
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'
2005
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Member of the Prosecution Team, Nuremberg Trial
Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial
1995
TV Special documentary
Himself - Author, Tyranny on Trial: The Evidence at Nuremberg
Known for movies
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006) as Himself - US Prosecutor
Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial (1995) as Himself - Author, Tyranny on Trial: The Evidence at Nuremberg
Görings letzte Schlacht - Das Tribunal von Nürnberg (2006) as Himself
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (2005) as Himself - Member of the Prosecution Team, Nuremberg Trial
$1.1 Million
