Robert Kempner settled in Italy, where he taught law, and moved to the United States in 1939.
11 Facts About Robert Kempner
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Robert Max Wasilii Kempner was born in Freiburg, Germany, on 17 October 1899.
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Robert Kempner was the son of Walter Kempner and Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, who were both microbiologists and regarded as one of the prominent scientist couples of their time.
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Robert Kempner's mother was the second woman to become a professor in Prussia.
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Robert Kempner studied law, political science and other subjects at the universities of Berlin, Breslau and Freiburg.
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Robert Kempner became an opponent of Nazism and left Germany after Hitler came to power, settling in the United States.
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Robert Kempner presented the case against his old nemesis Wilhelm Frick.
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Robert Kempner appeared as an expert witness at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961.
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When Robert Kempner left the Nuremberg trials in the mid-1940s, he took away thousands of trial documents, which he brought back to his home in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.
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Robert Kempner was married to Ruth Robert Kempner with two sons, Lucian and Andre, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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In 1993, at age 93, Robert Kempner died in Frankfurt, Germany, where he practiced law.