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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you missed 60 minutes interview with Ben Ferencz, at 99 the oldest living Nuremberg Prosecutor
you should watch the video. Amazing story and even more, a truly amazing man. Makes one think what on earth we can do to get back to that stage of moral "clarity"...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-the-last-nuremberg-prosecutor-alive-ben-ferencz-wants-the-world-to-know-60-minutes-2019-06-30/
At 99, Ben Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive and he has a far-reaching message for todays world
It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz. He's 99 years old, barely five feet tall, and he served as prosecutor of what's been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg; the crime, genocide; and the defendants, a group of German SS officers accused of committing the largest number of Nazi killings outside the concentration camps. More than a million men, women and children shot in their own towns and villages in cold blood.
As we first reported two years ago, Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today. But he isn't content just being a part of 20th century history -- he believes he has something important to offer the world right now.
"If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war."
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)dem4decades
(11,301 posts)a kennedy
(29,695 posts)Loved him......
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,817 posts)From his poor childhood born in America and not speaking english until he was 8 or 9.
Harvard Law scholarship
Army private
Landed at Normandy in D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Called back to be a lawyer
Prosecutes Action Squads
And still in practice today at age 99.
What a truly amazing life.
And on top of all that, what a truly sunny, amazing man.
dem4decades
(11,301 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,856 posts)He's a pip. What a life sir!
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,438 posts)Paz
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I love that little giant of a man!
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)That's amazing to me.