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Ben Ferencz: The last Nuremberg trials prosecutor

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The Lessons of Newenburg

You presided over at Newenburg as chief prosecutor was hailed as a successor some did at the time can't really be described as that if some of those who were found guilty were subsequently released I was of course disappointed but I never anticipated or tried to do justice in the broad sense of holding every criminal accountable it would have been a practical impossibility. You said you learned that war makes murderers mass murderers out of otherwise decent people and it implies for all wars and all nationalities. The same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

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