Haakon Maurice Chevalier Diary, 1945-1946
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ID: MS-0403
Extent: 0.2 Linear Feet

Haakon Maurice Chevalier was a translator and professor of French at the University of California-Berkeley. After working as a translator for the French government at the first meeting of the United Nations in 1945, he was asked by the War Department to serve as interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials. He was later responsible (with Leon Dostert) for the introduction of simultaneous interpretation at the United Nations. Chevalier was friends with the atomic physicist Robert Oppenheimer; these relations led to his appearance before the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities. He later authored a memoir of these events, entitled Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship.

Two notebooks and accompanying transcriptions in portfolio.



Acquired:
1982.
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Acquisition Note:
Willis Thompson
Related Materials:
Hitler Memorabilia Collection
Preferred Citation: Identification of item, folder title, box number, Haakon Maurice Chevalier Diary, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.