Career
He had represented several defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, Generalfeldmarschalls Albert Kesselring and Erich von Manstein.
He had represented several defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, Generalfeldmarschalls Albert Kesselring and Erich von Manstein.
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, this made him especially qualified to defend Germans prosecuted for war crimes by the victorious Allies.