Brady O. Bryson, 90; Member of Prosecution Team at Nuremberg

Brady O. Bryson, 90, a lawyer who was a member of the prosecution team at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II, died Feb. 9 at his Westminster, Md., farm.

Born in Overton, Nev., Bryson grew up in Maryland and graduated from Western Maryland College in 1935. He earned his law degree at Columbia University and began a career practicing tax law in Washington, D.C.

In 1943, he drafted the contract for the National Broadcasting Co.’s sale of its Blue Network, which became the American Broadcasting Co.

He joined the Navy in 1944 and worked in an intelligence unit specializing in breaking Soviet codes. At the end of the war, he was sent to Nuremberg to serve as a liaison between the American and Soviet legal staffs. When a vacancy occurred on the trial staff, he was added to the American legal team. He compiled documentary material on the Nazi persecution of Jews and later joined the team preparing the case against Hjalmar Schacht, a former Nazi economics minister who was fired by Adolf Hitler in 1939