Witness to Nuremberg cover art

Witness to Nuremberg

The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Witness to Nuremberg

By: W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By the time he was 18, Sonnenfeldt had grown up in Germany, escaped to England, been deported to Australia as a "German enemy alien", arrived in the U.S., and joined the U.S. Army. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.

During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders like von Ribbentrop, Rudolph Höss, and Julius Streicher, the infamous editor of the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer.

An engineer in later life, Sonnenfeldt was also a principal developer of color TV and computer technology and a key player in NASA's preparation of the first moon shot.

©2006 Richard W. Sonnenfeldt (P)2011 Audible, Inc. 20th Century Americas Europe Germany Historical Military Military & War Modern United States World War II War Imperialism Holocaust

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Witness to the Storm cover art
London in the Eighteenth Century cover art
Captured by History cover art
Scotland Yard's First Cases cover art
The Nuremberg Trial cover art
Long Way Back to the River Kwai cover art
Escape from Sobibor cover art
Five Chimneys cover art
Histories cover art
A Train Near Magdeburg cover art
The Interpreter from Java cover art
Citizen 865 cover art
Band of Brothers cover art
Europa, Europa cover art
A Light in the Darkness cover art
In Our Time cover art

Editor reviews

Richard Sonnenfeldt has lived an incredible life. In this memoir, Sonnenfeldt recounts his numerous brushes with history. The first and central story surrounds his role as lead translator for the Nuremburg Trials. Intimate and thought-provoking, Witness to Nuremberg: The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials in an insider's account of one of history's greatest judicial episodes. Robert Blumenfeld gives a distinguished performance. Well-rehearsed and fast paced, Blumenfeld succeeds in his reading of Sonnenfeldt's intimate reflections on his past.
All stars
Most relevant
This was an amazing audio book with, a great listen with good reader. would strongly recommend

interesting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As someone who spent 3 years in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, it good to listen to how the trials was organised by someone who actually took part in the trials themselves.

Really enjoyed listening to this rendition.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
An incredible life and someone I would very much have liked to have been able to meet

A great book and life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great book
this man had an amazing story to tell.
would definitely recommend this book

very interesting life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Firstly, the narrators voice takes some getting used to, but once you do the story is awesome. This man went through so much and had such a positive life in such a negative period of history. He turned everything bad that happened to him to his advantage. There was never a dull moment in this and it was interesting to get a first eye look at life after the war.

What an amazing life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews