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Nuremberg''s Voice of Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History''s Greatest Trials

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By (author): Frank Wolfe

The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg - 'the greatest trial in history' - seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings. They include important historical information never previously revealed. In an extraordinarily explicit life story, Frank includes his personal encounters, inside and outside the courtroom, with all the war criminals, particularly Hermann Goering. This, therefore, is a unique record that adds substantially to what is already publicly known about the trials and the defendants. Involved in proceedings from day one, Frank translated the first piece of evidence, interpreted the judges' opening statements, and concluded the trials by announcing the sentences to the defendants (and several hundred million radio listeners) - which earned him the soubriquet 'Voice of Doom'. Prior to the war, Frank, who was of Jewish descent, was a Bavarian playboy, an engineer, a resistance worker, a smuggler (of money and Jews out of Germany) and was declared to be 'an enemy of the State to be shot on sight'. Having escaped to Britain, he was interned at the outbreak of war but successfully campaigned for his release and eventually allowed to enlist in the British Army - in which he rose to the rank of Captain. Unable to speak English prior to his arrival, by the time of the Nuremberg trials he was described as the 'finest interpreter in the world'. A unique character of extreme contrasts Frank was a playboy, a risk taker and an opportunist. Yet he was also a man of immense courage, charm, good manners, integrity and ability. He undertook the toughest assignment imaginable at Nuremberg to a level that was 'satisfactory alike to the bench, the defence and the prosecution' and he played a major role in materially shortening the 'enormously difficult procedures' by an estimated three years. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Oct 2018
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526737519

About Frank Wolfe

Born on St Valentine's Day 1913 WOLFE FRANK was a strikingly handsome man who proved to be irresistible to women. Post Nuremberg he single-handedly tracked down and apprehended one of the 'most wanted' Nazi criminals and in a packed lifetime he was at various times a financial advisor racing driver theatre impresario broadcaster journalist salesman businessman restaurateur skier and property developer. PAUL HOOLEY was born and educated in Surrey. He founded a design and printing company that grew to be ranked amongst the industry's top 1%. He has also been a director of a building society a private hospital and companies involved in advertising publishing finance building transport property and engineering. He retired from business in 1990 since when he has devoted his life to studying writing and lecturing on a wide range of historical and military subjects. A former town and district councillor he was Mayor of Bedford in 1978. Amongst other involvements he has been a magistrate a tax commissioner and a prison visitor. He has been married to Helen for over fifty years has three children and now lives in Dorset. He was appointed a MBE?in 2003.

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