Britain’s chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials died Thursday at age 101. When he was attorney general, Lord Hartley William Shawcross led one of the nation’s most notorious treason cases, prosecuting William Joyce for aiding the Nazi propaganda effort during World War II.
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