He joined the Territorial Army as a gunner in July 1939 , and was commissioned in December the same year . After serving in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 , he joined the Prisoner of War Department at the War Office . He attended the Yalta Conference in 1944 . The following year , he was promoted colonel and was appointed continental secretary of the British War Crimes Executive . He then served as leading junior counsel of the British prosecution team at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 – 46 . He was appointed OBE in 1946
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Henry Phillimore