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Lives Lost: Veteran guarded Nazis during war crimes trial

by Associated Press
| May 27, 2020 10:27 PM

Emilio DiPalma was, as he liked to say, just a kid from western Massachusetts when he found himself in a front-row seat to history as a courtroom guard in Nuremberg, Germany, during the first and most famous trial of Nazi war criminals in 1945.

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