Robert Falco ( fr. Robert Falco , 1882-1960) - French lawyer, deputy chief prosecutor from France at the Nuremberg trials .
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 From left to right: Judges of the International Tribunal in Nuremberg D. Parker (USA), A. Donnedier de Vabre (France) and R. Falco | |
| Date of Birth | February 26, 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Paris , France |
| Date of death | January 14, 1960 (aged 77) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Occupation | lawyer |
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Biography
Born in Paris in a Jewish family. His great-grandfather was awarded Louis Philippe in 1831, and his maternal grandfather worked as the architect of the King of Belgium, Leopold II . Robert's father participated in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 , for which he was elected a member of the Legion of Honor , and later became chairman of the Paris Commercial Court.
Robert Falco received his law degree and worked as a lawyer since 1903. In 1907, he received his doctorate for his work as Duties and Rights of Theater Audiences [1] , and then worked as a judge, but until 1919 he also acted as a lawyer in court. Subsequently, Falco was appointed a member of the and was dismissed from this post by the German occupation authorities only in 1944 because of his Jewish origin.
At the London Conference on the Preparation of the Nuremberg Trials in June 1945, Falco represented France together with the professor of international law, Andre Grou, and was one of the main developers of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal , which determined the procedures and protocols for the Nuremberg trials . Directly at the Nuremberg trials, Falco was the deputy chief prosecutor for France, Henri Donnedier de Vabra .
To commemorate Falco’s merit at the Nuremberg trials, he was elected Honorary Grace Inn in 1946.
In 1947, Falco was reinstated as a judge of the .
He was awarded the Military Cross and the status of commander of the Legion of Honor .
He died in Paris in 1960.
Memoirs
During the year he spent in Nuremberg, Falco kept diaries, which he later used in his memoirs. These memoirs remained unpublished for decades and were published in September 2012 by Arbre called Judge of Nuremberg ( French: Juge à Nuremberg ) [2] , with illustrations by his second wife, Jeanne Falco, preface by historian Annette Vievorko and introduction by Guillaume Murali - a historian specializing in the history of international criminal justice [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Website of the National Library of France (Fr.)
- ↑ Accueil
- ↑ Logeart, Agathe: Au cœur du procès - Un juge raconte , Le Nouvel Observateur , November 10, 2005; procès de Nuremberg, extraits des carnets de Robert Falco [1] (French)