Harriet Zetterberg, a Yale-educated lawyer, helped convict top Nazis at Nuremberg—and yet her role was largely forgotten. A new book finally tells her story

By Natalie Livingstone

On the morning of January 9, 1946, Hans Frank, the Nazi known as “the Butcher of Poland,” sat in a dock in Nuremberg for the case that would lead to his conviction and execution. The case was a master class from the prosecution, who demonstrated Frank’s guilt using lines from his own diaries and papers. The man delivering the prosecution’s argument was American military lawyer Lieutenant Colonel William Baldwin. Many people that day and in the decades since assumed that he had written the argument. In fact, it had been meticulously constructed by someone whom most people in the READ ON