the international military tribunal prosecution, against the likes of herman goering and other leadingre already in progress. what was your reaction when you were asked to be part of that process? when the war was over, i came back, along with 10 million of the soldiers, looking for a job. i had graduated from the harvard law school, and i passed the bar, but i have no clients of any kind, and i was pleased to get a telegram from the pentagon, inviting me to come to the pentagon, they wanted to talk to me. and i arrived there, and they said, "dear sir", they'd never called me sir before. they wanted me to go back to germany to help with war crimes trials. now, i have done that during the war days, the last several months in the war, as we occupied portions of germany and france that had been occupied, we ran into examples of crimes of all kinds, the most obvious one is what we called the allied flyer cases, very little is known about that. flyers who had been shut down in german held territory were almost invariably beaten to death by the german mould, and that was part of our first wa