Hartley Shawcross was born on 4 February 1902 in Giessen, Germany. He was married to Susanne Monique Huiskamp, Joan Winifred Mather and Rosina Alberta Shyvers. He died on 10 July 2003 in Cowbeech, East Sussex, England, UK.
Step by step I have been forced more and more to the conclusion that the aims of Communism in Europe are sinister and deadly aims. I prosecuted the Nazis in Nuremberg. With my Russian colleagues I condemned Nazi aggression and Nazi terror. I feel shame and humiliation now to see under a different name the same aims pursued, the same technique followed, without check. (13 March 1948)