Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg trials prosecutor dies aged 103

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Ben Ferencz was an inexperienced 27-year-old when he stood in the war crimes court and presented a 'plea of humanity to law'.

The Nuremberg Trials began in November 1945He told the court that the officers had methodically carried out long-range plans to exterminate ethnic, national, political and religious groups"condemned in the Nazi mind".

All of the defendants were convicted and 13 of them were sentenced to death by hanging, even though Mr Ferencz had not asked for the death penalty.Mr Ferencz was born in Romania in 1920 and was 10 months old when his family moved to the US. It was after the end of the war in 1945 that he was recruited to join the US prosecution team at Nuremberg and in a 2018 interview with the American Bar Association, he said:"What was most significant about it was it gave us and it gave me an insight into the mentality of mass murderers.

 

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You don't need a guy who knows what he's doing when you already know the outcome

What a good man.

Shame he never lived long enough to prosecute Putin, Medvedev & Lavrov

Pity he never lived long enough to prosecute Biden

I hope that before he popped his clogs he was able to train up a younger bunch of prosecutors that can hold another Nuremberg style court. It looks like we are going to need Nirenberg courts to try the new lot trying to poison and take over the world using MRNA.

Actual hero’s are a dying breed.

Such a lovely human being.

A shame he didn't get the chance to prosecute Fauci.

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