“In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression”: from the New York Times obituary. Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, died on Friday at the age of 103.
Elaine and I watched a documentary about him tonight, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (dir. Barry Avrich, 2019). There’s an (extraordinary) episode of the podcast Criminal about Ferencz, “Palace of Justice,” first aired in 2018 and updated in 2021. And there’s a website, benferencz.org, with days’ worth of reading.
Saturday, April 8, 2023
Benjamin Ferencz (1920–2023)
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