Harry Fiss was the only son of Edmund and Gertrude Kranner.
13 Facts About Harry Fiss
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Harry Fiss's father died when Harry was three years old.
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Harry Fiss was drafted into the United States Army on his 18th birthday, in 1944.
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Harry Fiss served with the 9th Army Air Force, landing in Europe on V-E Day, May 8,1945.
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Harry Fiss served as Chief of Documentation for the American prosecution, responsible for translation, analysis, and security of materials used during the course of the trials.
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Harry Fiss served as the interpreter during the interrogation in which Rudolf Hoss admitted to being directly responsible for the deaths of two million Jews in the Holocaust.
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Harry Fiss translated Alfred Rosenberg's handwritten diary, which was used in evidence during the trials.
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Harry Fiss was discharged from the Army in 1946, after which he studied English at New York University's Washington Square College.
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Harry Fiss received his doctorate in psychology from New York University in 1961.
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Harry Fiss was a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and director of the Psychology Division in the Department of Psychiatry from 1973 to 1993.
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Harry Fiss was an American Board of Professional Psychology Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and a clinical psychologist, practicing individual and family therapy in West Hartford, Connecticut.
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Harry Fiss died on May 2,2009, in Washington, Connecticut, at the age of 83.
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Harry Fiss was survived by his wife Sari Max-Fiss and daughters Karen Fiss and Naomi Horton.