The Rosenbergs: The 1950 Trail Of Klaus Fuch

The 1950 trail of Klaus Fuchs, a scientist working on the Manhattan Project, led authorities to Harry Gold, who went by “Raymond”. In his trial, Gold implicated David Greenglass. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Greenglass’s sister and brother in law, were named by Greenglass in his trial. Julius Rosenberg was accused of making sketches of an atomic bomb and Ethel for transcribing notes about the bomb for Greenglass.2 The Rosenbergs had been communist spies during World War II and after the war had opened a business and were living a normal life. During these years after the war, the United States and British governments had been tracing the communist ring of which Greenglass and the Rosenbergs had been a part.3 Judge Irving Kaufman presided over the trial. Alexander and Emmanuel Bloch represented the Rosenbergs. The prosecuting attorney, Saypol, attempted to link the Rosenbergs to communism from the beginning of the trial.4 It was upheld that the Rosenbergs became involved in the communist party in the early 1930s and remained in the party up until the time of their arrest. 5 …show more content…
According to Kaufman, the Rosenbergs’ crime was “worse than murder.”6 The Rosenberg trial was the first incedent the death penalty was enforced for espionage during peace time. Throughout the world people protested the ruling of the trial and tried to get the decidsion reversed. Some even believe that the government “used the Rosenbergs as an example for the fate of