John Amen

Colonel John Harlan Amen (September 15, 1898 – March 10, 1960) was a lawyer and United States Army Intelligence officer, who served as Nuremberg Prison Chief Interrogator during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1915, where his father had previously been appointed as a principal, and from Princeton University in 1919.

[1] He served as a special assistant to the United States Attorney General on cases involving anti-trust laws from 1928 to 1938.

[1] On October 26, 1938, he was appointed as the special prosecutor to supersede the district attorney of Kings County in connection with investigation of official corruption in Brooklyn.

[2] His investigation eventually led to the dismissal of nearly a dozen police officers for accepting fraudulent bonds.

B&W photo of the US Army colonels sitting behind a wooden desk. Rudolf Hess sits in a chair obliquely facing them, right leg crossed over left, fingers interlaced in his lap.
Rudolph Hess being interrogated by Col. John Amen and Col. Smith Brookhart, October 1945