Haakon Maurice Chevalier diary [manuscript], 1945-1946 1945-1946.

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Haakon Maurice Chevalier diary [manuscript], 1945-1946 1945-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8902506

This collection is composed of two notebooks kept by Haakon Maurice Chevalier during his position as French-English interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945. The diaries begin on the first day of the trial, November 20, 1945, and end on February 25, 1946. His account includes vivid descriptions of trial participants (including facial expressions while testifying, unusual physical features, and personality traits), and personal interpretations of testimony.

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Chevalier, Haakon, 1902-1985

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Haakon Maurice Chevalier was a translator and professor of French at the University of California-Berkeley. After working as a translator for the French government at the first meeting of the United Nations in 1945, he was asked by the War Department to serve as interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials. He was later responsible (with Leon Dostert) for the introduction of simultaneous interpretation at the United Nations. Chevalier was friends with the atomic physicist Robert Oppenheimer; these relati...