Virgil Van Street; Nazi Prosecutor Became Priest

Virgil Van Street, 82, an Episcopal priest and lawyer who prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. Street worked as a lawyer in the 1930s and 1940s and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland. He spent two years in Germany as a prosecutor of World War II Nazi criminals. After the trials, Street joined the Foreign Service. He later attended Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. and was ordained in 1971. In St. Petersburg, Fla., on Sunday of unannounced causes.