Patricia Jordan was 21 years old and had just graduated from the Geneva School of Interpretation when she was selected to work as an interpreter at the Nuremberg trials. It was the first time in history that simultaneous translation was used. "Speaking into a microphone while simultaneously hearing a disembodied voice through headphones was something deeply unsettling. It was my first job and the most important one. I went there with the innocent enthusiasm of my 21 years. When I returned home four months later, I had aged ten years, and yes, I was already an interpreter," Jordan wrote.