Thomas Lambert Jr.; Prosecutor in Nuremberg Trials

Thomas Francis Lambert Jr., Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor who convicted Martin Bormann in absentia. Lambert was asked to join the American prosecution team in the post-World War II International Military Tribunal in the German city by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. An acclaimed scholar in trial law, Lambert helped prepare the case against the Nazi Party that accused it of being a criminal organization. He also helped win the conviction and death sentence of Bormann, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest aides. The condemned Bormann was never captured, but a skeleton unearthed in Berlin in 1972 was determined with near certainty to be his. Born in Detroit, Lambert graduated from Oxford University and Yale Law School, was dean of Florida’s Stetson University College of Law and taught at the law schools of Boston University and Suffolk University. He had a long association with the American Trial Lawyers Assn. and for 40 years oversaw its law journal and other publications. On Wednesday in Boston of Parkinson’s disease.