

Photo Credit: U.S. Army Brigadier General Telford Taylor (left) and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson sit in Jackson’s office during a recess in the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1945-46.
By Blaine Taylor
On March 23, 1991, at a reunion of the postwar Nuremberg International Military Tribunal staffers in Washington, I had occasion to meet the former American prosecutor, Brigadier General Telford Taylor. On May 23, 1998, the general died in New York at age 90 after suffering a series of strokes.
In his New York Times obituary, Taylor’s friend Jonathan Bush, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, recalled, “He’ll be remembered as a chief N
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