Letters from Nuremburg: my father's narrative for justice.

In the summer of 1945, Thomas J. Dodd, the father of U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, travelled to Nuremberg to serve as a staff lawyer in the trial for crimes against humanity. Thanks to his agile legal mind and especially to his skills at interrogating the defendants he quickly rose to become the number two prosecutor in the U.S. contingent. Over the course of fifteen months, Dodd described his efforts and his impressions of the proceedings in nightly letters to his wife, Grace. The letters remained in the Dodd family archives, unexamined, for decades. When Christopher Dodd, who followed his father's path to the Senate, sat down to read the letters, he was overwhelmed by their intimacy, by the love story they unveil, by their power to paint vivid portraits of the accused war criminals, and by their insights into the historical importance of the trials