Warning: This article includes a graphic reference to the Holocaust. Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials who prosecuted Nazis for genocidal war crimes, has died at 103.
At just 27, he became chief prosecutor in case involving 1 million deaths at Nazi handsU.S. lawyer and Nuremberg war crimes prosector Benjamin Ferencz speaks at an opening ceremony for an exhibition commemorating the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, in November 2010.Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials who prosecuted Nazis for genocidal war crimes, has died at 103.
Today the world lost a leader in the quest for justice for victims of genocide and related crimes. We mourn the death of Ben Ferencz—the last Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor. At age 27, with no prior trial experience, he secured guilty verdicts against 22 Nazis.Born in Transylvania in 1920, Ferencz immigrated as a young boy with his parents to New York to escape rampant anti-Semitism. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ferencz joined the U.S.
At one point toward the end of the war, Ferencz was sent to Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps to search for incriminating documents, but came back empty handed. At 27, with no previous trial experience, Ferencz became chief prosecutor for a 1947 case in which 22 former commanders were charged with killing over a million Jews, Roma and other enemies of the Third Reich in Eastern Europe. Rather than depending on witnesses, Ferencz mostly relied on official German documents to make his case. All the defendants were convicted, and more than a dozen were sentenced to death by hanging even though Ferencz hadn't asked for the death penalty.
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