80 years ago (Jan. 4, 1946 until Oct. 4, 1946) - in Nuremberg, Germany

SOURCE UMKC Law School posting

law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nurembergchronology.html

Jan. 4, 1946

Colonel Telford Taylor begins, making

a case to convict for war crimes, charging

the German High Command.  Because of

this immediately impressive speech/

argumentation, Taylor will be appointed

Chief Prosecutor in the 1946 Nuremberg

Tribunal.