Ben Ferencz was an inexperienced 27-year-old when he stood in the war crimes court and presented a 'plea of humanity to law'.
The Nuremberg Trials began in November 1945He told the court that the officers had methodically carried out long-range plans to exterminate ethnic, national, political and religious groups"condemned in the Nazi mind".
All of the defendants were convicted and 13 of them were sentenced to death by hanging, even though Mr Ferencz had not asked for the death penalty.Mr Ferencz was born in Romania in 1920 and was 10 months old when his family moved to the US. It was after the end of the war in 1945 that he was recruited to join the US prosecution team at Nuremberg and in a 2018 interview with the American Bar Association, he said:"What was most significant about it was it gave us and it gave me an insight into the mentality of mass murderers.
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