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Ben Ferencz: The last Nuremberg trials prosecutor

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The Nazi Atrocities in Germany

The United States felt that the International Military Tribunal trial against Hermann Gern was just a camera shot of a small sampling. So you went to Berlin with a team of about 50 people scoured through all the archives, miles of Nazi documents and gathered enough evidence to cover the broad spectrum of German society which was really basically responsible for the crimes. In previous interviews you've described how in gathering witness testimonies you did resort to duress for instance lining up villages and threatening to shoot them if they lied. Well perhaps it would but it's only because the people who make allegations don't understand what war is about. If I bring room of 20 people into heaven this is actual case and line them up

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