Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, Nuremberg Interrogator, Is Dead at 86

(NYTimes) Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, who fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, became the chief interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trials and interrogated some of the most notorious Nazi leaders of World War II, died Friday at his home in Port Washington, N.Y.
... After arriving in Australia, he pleaded his desire as a Jew to fight the Nazis and was released. He began a long return journey, in which he set foot on five continents and survived a torpedo attack. In 1941, arriving in the United States, he was reunited with his brother and parents, who had escaped to Sweden before settling in the Baltimore area. Continued

Photo: Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock, circa 1945-1946. (National Archives via Wikipedia)