| Murray C. Bernays "Murray C. Bernays (1894-1970) was an American lawyer who planned the legal framework and procedures for the Nuremberg War Crime Trials after World War II. Bernays was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States with his family as a child. He served in the U.S. Army in France during World War I and earned his law degree from Columbia University. Between the late 1920s and early 1940s, he was a partner in the New York City law firm Ernst, Gale, Bernays & Falk. Bernays rejoined the U.S. Army during World War II and became a colonel with the U.S. Army General Staff Corps in 1945. In this capacity, he planned the legal framework and procedures for the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, basing the trials on the legal foundation of conspiracy and publically trying the war crimes defendants through well established legal methods. For this, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Bernays retired from the U.S. Army in 1945 and practiced law for several New York City partnerships between the mid 1940s and mid 1960s." [Bio/History, Murray C. Bernays Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming][The Murray C. Bernays Papers include "unpublished poetry manuscripts" and an unpublished book, "This is the Land."] |
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