Ben Ferencz
Also known as Benjamin B. Ferencz
American lawyer and pacifist born in Romania (Great Romania Kingdom)
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Benjamin Berell Ferencz (March 11, 1920 – April 7, 2023) was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. Later, he became an advocate of international rule of law and for the…
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- Bullets And Blueberries — Self2025
- War and Justice — Self __ lui-même2024
- Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" — Self - Jurist2022
- Getting Away with Murder(s) — Self2021
- We Shall Not Die Now — Self2019
- Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz — Self2018
- Law Not War — Self2015
- La justice allemande face aux criminels nazis — Self2015
- Watchers of the Sky — Self2014
- The Anatomy of Evil — Self
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Benjamin Berell Ferencz (March 11, 1920 – April 7, 2023) was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of the 12 subsequent Nuremberg trials held by US authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. When the Einsatzgruppen reports were discovered, Ferencz pushed for a trial based on their evidence. When confronted with a lack of staff and resources, he personally volunteered to serve as the prosecutor.
Later he became an advocate of international rule of law and for the establishment of an International Criminal Court. From 1985 to 1996, he was an adjunct professor of international law at Pace University.
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