Henry T. King

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The prosecution team at the Trial of Erhard Milch. Front right is Telford Taylor (Chief Counsel). Across the table from him is Clark Denney (Chief Trial Counsel). Immediately to Taylor's right is Henry T. King (Assistant Counsel).
The prosecution team at the Trial of Erhard Milch. Front right is Telford Taylor (Chief Counsel). Across the table from him is Clark Denney (Chief Trial Counsel). Immediately to Taylor's right is Henry T. King (Assistant Counsel).

Henry T. King Jr. (born May 27, 1919, Meriden, Connecticut) was a U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and is a legal practitioner and an academic writer.

[edit] Life and work

King received his B.A. degree in 1941 from Yale College, and his LL.B. in 1943 from Yale Law School (1943). After practicing law for several years with the firm Milbank, Tweed & Hope, King became one of the United States prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, serving in 1946 to 1947.[1] He was initially assigned to the prosecution of the German General Staff and the High Command, preparing cases against Walther von Brauchitsch, Heinz Guderian, and Erhard Milch for trial before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Guderian was never tried, and von Brauchitsch died while awaiting trial. The Milch Trial convicted Milch on two of three counts, and he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. King also worked on the Ministries Case and the Justice Case.[2]

Following his service at Nuremberg, King had a long career as counsel for several corporations, including the TRW Corporation. He was a member of the American Bar Association Task force on War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia.[3]

As a part of preparing for the trial of Erhard Milch, in 1946 King interviewed Albert Speer, one of the defendants at the Trial of the Major War Criminals. Some fifty years after the encounter, he published a book with Bettina Elles, entitled The Two Worlds of Albert Speer: Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor.[4] In addition to this book, King has written more than 60 journal articles.[5]

Currently, King is a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he also serves as the U.S. Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute. King is also a Senior Advisor to the Robert H. Jackson Center at Jamestown, New York.[3]

King was interviewed for the 2006 BBC docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial.

[edit] Honors

In 2002, The University of Pittsburgh School of Law named King a Fellow honoris causa of the Center for International Legal Education. Also in 2002, King was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws by the University of Western Ontario. Mr. King was a guest of the government of The Netherlands on March 11, 2003, for the inauguration of the International Criminal Court at The Hague.[1]

His son, Dave King, is a novelist.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Henry T. King, Jr.," biographical webpage maintained by the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Retrieved October 13, 2007.
  2. ^ King, Henry T. (1995). "The Nuremberg Context From The Eyes Of A Participant," public remarks 17 November 1995 during “Nuremberg and the Rule of Law: A Fifty-Year Verdict,” a conference held at The Judge Advocate General’s School, United States Army, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 17-18, 1995. Remarks archived on a webpage of the Robert H. Jackson Center, retrieved October 13, 2007.
  3. ^ a b "Henry T. King, Jr.," biographical webpage maintained by the Robert H. Jackson Center, retrieved October 13, 2007.
  4. ^ King, Henry T. and Elles, Bettina (1997). The Two Worlds of Albert Speer: Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor, Lanham (US-MA), University Press of America 1997. ISBN 0-7618-0872-8.
  5. ^ King, Henry T. (2007). "Publications," webpage at the website of the Case Western Reserve University Law School, retrieved October 15, 2007.