Английская Википедия:Dorothea Grater Minskoff

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Dorothea ("Dottie") Grater Minskoff (1910–1986) was a lawyer who participated in the Ministries Trial in Nuremberg, Germany.[1] She was born in Pennsylvania and attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School at a time when few women were in law school.[2]

Personal life

Minskoff attended law school in the 1930s at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She graduated from law school in 1934.[2] Minskoff met her husband, Emanuel E. Minskoff, in law school and both were in the graduating class of 1934.[3][4] They lived in New York for eight years before moving to Washington, D.C.[5] She had two sister-in-laws and no children.[5] Minskoff lost her husband in 1965 after a long battle with illness.[5]

By 1978, she had moved to Florida where she died in 1986.[6]

Early career

Minskoff could not find a job as a lawyer after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Instead, she took a job as a secretary for the American Bankers Association.[7]

Law practice

Minskoff and her husband were recruited to join the prosecution team for the Ministries Trial by their friend, Josiah E. DuBois Jr., who served as the Chief Prosecutor.[8] The Ministries Trial was the largest, longest, and last of the Nuremberg trials where the U.S. Military prosecuted Hitler's government officials for crimes against humanity.[9] She was one of thirty-four prosecution attorneys.[10] She helped prosecute twenty-one Nazi officials.[11] Her job included reviewing trial documents, including secret memos.[11] The trials presented difficult legal questions when there was no precedent for an international criminal trial.[12]

It was not common for women to practice law in the 1940s, let alone practice law on the international stage with a high profile trial. As a result, it was unusual that there were multiple women on the prosecution trial team.[13]

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