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In such a gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg tests, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a impressive life. By enough time he was 18, Sonnenfeldt possessed developed in Germany, escaped to Britain, been deported to Australia as a "German enemy alien", found its way to the U.S., and joined the U.S. Military. By age 22 he previously fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed key interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi warfare thieves at the Nuremberg tests. During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering and also other top Nazi leaders like von Ribbentrop, Rudolph Höss, and Julius Streicher, the infamous editor of the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer. An engineer in later life, Sonnenfeldt was also a principal developer of color TV and computer technology and a key player in NASA's preparation of the first moon shot.