Richard Sonnenfeldt

Richard Sonnenfeldt

Richard Sonnenfeldt (b. 1923 Berlin, Germany) is a Jewish-American engineer and corporate executive most notable as one of the primary translators for the Nuremberg Trials after WWII.

Life

Born to wealthy Jewish parents in 1923, Richard was eventually driven from his homeland by the harshness of the Nuremberg Laws. Interned with his brother in England in 1940 as a enemy alien, Sonnenfeldt was sent to a prison in Australia, from where he eventually emigrated to the USA.

After the trials, being a studied electrical engineer, Sonnenfeldt was involved into the preparations of the Moon Landing and the output of Colour TV.

In 2006, Sonnenfeldt's memoirs were published as the book entitled "Witness to Nuremberg" (Arcade Publishing), also published earlier in German. Sonnenfeldt was interviewed for the 2006 BBC docudrama "".

External links

* [http://www.stjohns.edu/media/3/cf01f851490643c6b0e6e331a781462e.pdf Press release regarding his memoirs]


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