High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy is a book written by Telford Taylor, the Chief Counsel Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.The book Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy, published in 1970, is an examination of the United States conduct of the Vietnam conflict in comparison to the actions taken by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Its author, Telford Taylor, was once the Chief Counsel Prosecutor at the war crimes trials of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany from 1946 1949. In that capacity, Taylor helped to establish the laws by which Nazi war criminals would be tried for their crimes.