Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis, diesBen 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 atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps, has died. Using his legal background, he became an investigator of Nazi war crimes against U.S. soldiers as part of a new War Crimes Section of the Judge Advocate’s Office. “The Buchenwald concentration camp was a charnel house of indescribable horrors,” Ferencz wrote. After the war, Ferencz was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army and returned to New York to begin practicing law. In later decades, Ferencz championed the creation of an international court which could prosecute any government’s leaders for war crimes.

Source: CBC News April 08, 2023 21:23 UTC