Poetic Obituaries: [Whitney R.] Harris regularly spoke in

public about the Nuremberg trials and his belief that the United Nations should create a permanent international war crimes tribunal. In 2005, he spoke at a Holocaust Observance Day ceremony in Richmond Heights, where he read a poem that he wrote only a few years before on what he called "the gravest inhumanities and killings that man has ever perpetrated on man."

The poem says in part: "A thousand years have passed. What was the number killed at Auschwitz? It matters not. 'Twas but a trifle in the history of massacre of man by man."

from St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Whitney Harris dies; was a Nuremberg prosecutor

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