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Hartley Shawcross. Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, QC (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. He also served as Britain's principal delegate to the ...
Lord Shawcross QC; Lord Shawcross QC – A Liverpool Labour Legal Luminary. Sir Shortly Floorcross, as his contemporaries in the House of Commons sometimes jokingly referred to him, was otherwise known successively as William Hartley Shawcross, Sir Hartley Shawcross KC, and finally, Lord Shawcross QC PC (4th February 1902 - 10th July 2003).
Details: Hartley Shawcross, a barrister, Labour politician and an honorary fellow of the College, will be perhaps best remembered as the leading British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. He was born on 4 February 1902, the son of John and Hilda Shawcross. He was educated at Dulwich College, the London School of Economics and the ...
Shawcross, who was born into a Rochdale mill-owning family, was known for dropping political bricks with regularity. His biggest came during Labour's post-war political dominance. Sir Hartley's apparent comment on his party as "the masters now" became part of political history, and he was pilloried as an arrogant aristocrat.
British Chief Prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross makes a final plea to the International Military Tribunal. Transcript 12,000,000 men, women and children have died thus, murdered in cold blood, millions upon millions more today mourn their fathers and mothers, their husbands, their wives and their children.
On July 26, 1946, The British Chief Prosecutor, Sir Hartley Shawcross, made the longest closing statement of the Prosecution. He began by emphasizing that Nazi Germany fought a “total and totalitarian war” in defiance of solemn agreement and treaties. He said ten million had been killed “in battles that ought never to have been,” and that 12 million more persons had been murdered ...
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Jul 11, 2003 · Hartley William Shawcross was born in Germany on Feb. 2, 1902, to John and Hilda Shawcross. At the time of Hartley's birth, his father, who normally taught at Liverpool University, was a visiting ...
