Nuremberg interpreter talks

October 19, 2006

In 1945 Richard Sonnenfeldt was a private in the U.S. army in Germany at the end of the war when he was whisked off by the army and thrust into spotlight to interpret for the Americans at the upcoming war crimes trial to take place in Nuremberg . Afterwards, he graduated from Johns Hopkins University Engineering School and holds 35 U.S. patents. Between 1979 and 1982, Sonnenfeldt was a executive vice president of NBC and is listed in Who's Who of America.