Although J. Warren Madden had served on the NLRB for only five years , at least one observer concluded that Madden " chose to make a record of vigorous enforcement of the Act unmatched in the history of administrative agencies . " Madden was permitted to temporarily leave the bench in 1945 to assist the United States Department of War and the United States Army in various legal capacities associated with the Allied administration of occupied Germany in the wake of World War II . He was appointed Associate Director of the legal staff of the Office of Military Government , United States in 1946 , and for his service received the Medal of Freedom in 1947 . Madden was part of a three-person panel which reviewed Alfried Krupp 's appeal of his conviction for crimes against humanity at the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials ; Madden and his colleagues successfully recommended against overturning Krupp 's conviction . He also was part of a team which traveled with Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius D. Clay to the Potsdam Conference to provide legal assistance
Potsdam Conference
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J. Warren Madden