Looking Backward-Thinking Forward A Nuremberg

Looking Backward-Thinking Forward describes the progression of author Drexel A. Sprecher from his early life in the Midwest to becoming the deputy chief counsel in the trials of the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany. The author later became the editor-in-chief of the official volumes on the last twelve of the thirteen Nuremberg trials.

PART ONE

Introduction

3

(6)

The Ups and Downs of Boyhood

9

(10)

My First Year at College

19

(4)

Three Challenging Years at the University of Wisconsin

23

(10)

A Year of Study and Travel in Europe

33

(8)

Three Difficult Years at Harvard Law School

41

(6)

Four Years as a Trial Attorney of the National Labor Relations Board

47

(4)

World War II---Military Service in England, North Africa, and the United States

51

(8)

Training Anti-Nazi Germans for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

59

(6)

Participation in the First Nuremberg Trial

65

(44)

The Twelve Subsequent Nuremberg Trials

109

(10)

The Busy Years of the 1950s

119

(12)

Training, Teaching, Writing

131

(12)

PART TWO

Tasks for the Twenty First Century

143

(2)

Developments Concerning Human Rights

145

(26)

Stabilizing Population Growth

171

(12)

Our Environment---Protect It or Else

183

(20)

The Changing Roles and Rights of Women

203

(22)

The Changing Roles and Rights of Homosexuals

225

(4)

Senior Citizens---A Growing Special Interest Group

229

(14)

Education---A Never Ending Quest

243

(18)

Facing Up to Racial Prejudice

261

(20)

Religion---Diversity and Conflict

281

(14)

The Crisis in the Catholic Church

295

(4)

The Revolution in Communications

299

(2)

Politics and Campaign Finance

301

(8)

The Misbehavior of the Officials of Several Large Corporations

309

(2)

Continuing Ethnic Conflicts

311

(12)

The War in Iraq

323

(2)

Strengthening the United Nations---Reaching toward Justice and Peace

325

(14)

Index

339

(38)

About the Author

377

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