Born: 1913, Independence, Wisconsin Describes reconstruction of
the courtroom in Nuremberg [Interview: 1990] An architect whose
name I forget now, who worked for OSS, was pushed in very early
and he immediately came up with the design and it required
knocking out some walls and to make the courtroom larger so
there'd be room for the press and for visitors. And he did a
terrific job on this, and also made cubicles for the
photographic apparatus that would be used and for the sound
equipment. Every bit of the trial was recorded on tape, so that
there could never be any argument about what was said. Drexel
Sprecher was educated at the University of Wisconsin, the London
School of Economics, and at the Harvard School of Law before
receiving a position at the U.S. Government's Labor Board in
1938. He enlisted in the American military after the United
States declared war on Germany, and was posted to London. After
the war, Sprecher served as a prosecutor of Nazi war criminals
at the Nuremberg trials. US Holocaust M