Richard Sonnenfeldt was the chief interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg Tribunal for the notorious Nazi leaders of World War II. To a twenty-two-year-old emigrant from Nazi Germany to America, participation in these interrogations seemed somewhat surreal. Sonnenfeldt found himself face to face with nearly two dozen Nazi oppressors who had threatened his life and the lives of his family seven years earlier. Among them were Hermann Goering, to whom the author pays special attention, industrialist Albert Speer, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign minister who prepared the most important acts of fascist aggression. In his book, Sonnenfeldt talks about the interrogations of the accused during the preparation for the Nuremberg trials and about the trial itself. The author speaks out about why the Nazis were able to come to power and how it happened that the majority of ordinary people succumbed to their propaganda.