An assistant chief prosecutor to the American delegation at Nuremberg was a German Jew who served the Prussian Interior Ministry.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
Robert M. W. Kempner, the assistant U.S. chief counsel at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, is described by multiple sources as a German-born lawyer of Jewish descent who served as a senior official in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior before being dismissed in 1933. The extracted claim matches the passage's description and the sources support every material element.
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… You know, he said, um, like all men that who've served governments at war, I've, I've done some very immoral things, but I've never killed anybody, and this idea that I'm some mastermind of the architect of the architecture of mass homicide is, is laughable. One of the, one of the assistant chief prosecutors to the American delegation who worked closely with Justice Jackson, both before and subsequent, he was this German Jew who served the Prussian Interior Ministry, and during the years of struggle, as the National Socialists called it, he became an arch opponent of Hitler, and then, obviously, after the National Socialist revolution, he was dismissed from his post. …
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Supports. Multiple sources describe Kempner as assistant U.S. chief counsel at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, serving on Robert Jackson's US prosecution staff.[2][3][4][5]
Supports. Sources say Kempner was a senior adviser or chief legal adviser in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior from 1926 to 1933 or 1928 onward, before his dismissal after the Nazi rise to power.[2][3][5][6]
Supports. Wikipedia and the Jewish Virtual Library describe Kempner as a lawyer of Jewish descent, and the USHMM and Holocaust Encyclopedia entries record that he was dismissed and stripped of citizenship because he was Jewish.[3][4][6][7]
Context. The Ben Ferencz obituary and the Nuremberg transcript excerpt do not address Kempner's background and neither supports nor contradicts the claim.[1][8]
Context. The extracted claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, which describes an assistant chief prosecutor to the American delegation who worked with Justice Jackson and served the Prussian Interior Ministry as a German Jew. The post's own description of him as a German Jew matches the sources.
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- 1Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis, diesapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2www.encyclopedia.com · kempner-robert-max-wasiliiKempner, Robert Max Wasilii - Encyclopedia.comencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Robert Kempner - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Reversal of Fortune: Robert Kempner | Holocaust Encyclopediaencyclopedia.ushmm.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Robert M. W. Kempner; Prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberglatimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museumcollections.ushmm.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Kempner, Robert Max Wasiliijewishvirtuallibrary.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8Nuremberg 14 November 1945-1 October 1946 (Vol. 2) by ...gutenberg.org · not rated · cited for: context
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