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Words about. if i bring in a room of 20 people and this is an actual case and i lined them up an actual case and i lined them up and say i want you all to write out exactly what happened, what your role was what others did, anyone who lies will be shot. 0h, what others did, anyone who lies will be shot. oh, how can you do thing like that, youre threatening them with torture is not what i might want to tell them? anyone who lies will get their patty cake tonight? please be honest? please confess ...

And the last several months of the war, portions of germany were occupied and we ran into examples of crimes of all kinds. the most obvious ones were the allied flyer cases very little is known about that. flyers have been shot down and german held territory and were beaten to death by the german mob. and that was part of ourfirst war crimes german mob. and that was part of our first war crimes cases. so i had that kind of experience is when i left the army. and i took the back to germany when i...

You are recruited for the nuremberg war crimes trial. the tribunal against the likes of leading nazis were already in progress. what was your reaction when you are asked to be part of that process?- be part of that process? when the war was — be part of that process? when the war was over. _ be part of that process? when the war was over. i _ be part of that process? when the war was over. i came - be part of that process? when the war was over. i came backj the war was over. i came back along...

Law is always better than war, and that is my firm conviction. no matter if you get a bad decision, law will always be better than war, which is murderous and terrible. and there are three ways of preventing it, which is one, never give up, two never give up, three... and then i hear the echo from the audience, "never give up". ben ferencz, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. its been a pleasure. i hope that you all, dont enjoy it, but think about it, and act on it. thank you. hel...

Degrees and those were generals, they had priority and from these, i picked out 22 —28 was. is that absurd? 0f from these, i picked out 22 —28 was. is that absurd? of course. theyre only 22 in the company. so we have a selection of the sampling and thats all it is. about a dozen were given death sentences and four were actually executed. the others remained in prison but only for a few years and between the americans and german governments and they were released. so, in orderto success? rele...

Nuremberg. — many the killed. the lessons of nuremberg. you _ many the killed. the lessons of nuremberg, you said _ many the killed. the lessons of nuremberg, you said i - many the killed. the lessons of nuremberg, you said i learned | nuremberg, you said i learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same mentality that made the holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race. so, so many years later, in your 90th year and the look of the c...

This was horrible glorified. there was nothing heroic about it at all. it shows how human beings can be debased and time of war. ,, , ., ., beings can be debased and time of war. ,, ,, ., . ,, ., of war. see you did go back to germany _ of war. see you did go back to germany and _ of war. see you did go back to germany and discovered - of war. see you did go back to germany and discovered nazi | germany and discovered nazi offices in archives and tried to find evidence of the nazi atrocities by ...

The war was on. americans are being killed in battle and the russians are being slaughtered. and the changing political scene, the conservative group was saying but we, why are we getting involved in this. this is crimes against the germans, the british are particularly keen about not executing some of the german generals that the british army wanted. so the political pressure was such that together with some feeling of, amnesty for humanitarian considerations, they stopped the trials, they rele...