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At the age of 27, Benjamin Ferencz was named chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which 20 members of the SS’s mobile death squads were convicted of war crimes; in 2022, the U.S. Congress awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor

CHIANG MAI (The Nation/Asia News Network): The Third Army of Thailand has apologised to the mother of a comatose young man after she was forced to take him by ambulance to a military conscription site in Lamphun province on Saturday (April 8) to prove he is unable to enlist as a soldier.

Before the proceedings began he was sent to inspect Nazi archives, later remarking: ‘I had peered into Hell’

Ferencz, a Jew who grew up in New York, was able to present the entirety of his case in just two court sessions. All defendants were found guilty.

The army has apologised for ordering a bed-ridden man to appear at a conscription venue in the northern province of Lamphun on Saturday to prove he is unqualified for the draft.

He was transported by ambulance to the conscription centre so that officers could see his condition. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ferencz was 27 and a graduate of Harvard Law School when he was named as the chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which 20 members of the SS’s mobile death squads were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression.

Listening to a man describe what Omaha Beach smelled like was quite literally priceless. Mr. Powell may be gone now, but today, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

FRASER — A local World War II veteran was honored March 29, in conjunction with National Vietnam War Veterans Day, by the Fraser Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6691 and Detroit’s Chapter 9 of the Vietnam Veterans of America.