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- “Vengeance is not our goal, nor do we seek merely a just retribution. We ask this court to affirm by international penal action, man’s right to live in peace and dignity, regardless of his race or creed. The case we present is a plea of humanity to law.” – Benjamin Ferencz, Opening Statement before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, 1947
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Apr 9, 2023 · After the war ended in 1945, Mr Ferencz was recruited to join in the US prosecution at the war crimes trials in Nuremberg, a city where the Nazi leadership had held elaborate propaganda rallies ...
Aug 5, 2014 · – Benjamin Ferencz, Opening Statement before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, 1947. As a former prosecutor and a professor at the Army Command and General Staff College who teaches courses on war crimes, I have more than a passing interest in the Nuremberg trials. This monumental event in international legal history is, in fact, my specialty.
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He had a rather inauspicious start after enlisting in the US Army: The well-read Ferencz, who had attended Harvard Law School on a merit scholarship, started out as a typist at Camp David in the US state of North Carolina. At the time, he could neither type nor fire a rifle. Instead, he was first assigned to clean toilets and scrub pots and floors....
"The important thing was to secure the evidence, the lists of prisoners, the names of camp leaders and those in charge at the SS," Ferencz recounted in his memoirs (Always Tell Your Truth, 2020). "On this basis, we issued warrants to arrest the persons. We secured all the evidence and drove directly to the next camp." On the way, they encountered R...
Back in America, the former US soldier found himself unemployed at first; no law firm wanted to entrust him with a case. Then, an unexpected telegram from the Pentagon summoned him to General Telford Taylor, a brilliant lawyer who was personally appointed by US President Truman to be in charge of the Nuremberg follow-up trials.Taylor appointed the ...
In the spring of 1947, an employee came across three thick Leitz folders in the filing cabinets of the German Foreign Ministry, labeled "Ereignismeldungen aus der UdSSR — Berichte von der Ostfront" ("Dispatches from the Soviet Union — reports from the Eastern Front"). "They were reports from SS special units, disguised by a seemingly meaningless na...
For Ferencz, who was born in 1920 in the Carpathians to Jewish parents and who grew up in abject poverty in New York, these experiences in post-war Germany proved formative. As a representative of the Jewish Claims Conference, he later worked tirelessly for the reparations agreement between Israel and West Germany, which was signed in Luxembourg in...
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3 Ferencz Opening Statement at Nuremberg, BenFerencz.org, https://benferencz.org/articles/pre-1970/ferencz-opening-statement-at-nuremburg/. During the Nuremberg Trials, Ferencz served as a principal trial lawyer for the U.S., working under chief prosecutors Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor.
Apr 9, 2023 · Armin Weigel/AP. Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the...
Apr 9, 2023 · Nadia Khomami. Sun 9 Apr 2023 12.54 EDT. S eventy-six years ago, at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg – once the site of annual torchlit Nazi rallies – Ben Ferencz, a punchy 27-year-old...
Apr 8, 2023 · As a war crimes investigator and a Nuremberg prosecutor, he witnessed the horrifying effects of Nazi crimes. He became convinced that the world can prevent such atrocities only by outlawing and systematically punishing aggressive war and acts such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
