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William Kongable, who was among the first U.S. troops to liberate a Nazi camp, doesn’t boast about his contributions during World War II — he says he doesn’t...
Bill Kongable was only 19 years old when he left home to liberate Ohrdruf
In the spring of 1947, former Army sergeant and now Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz pleaded with his boss to add one more case to the docket before the International Military Tribunals set up to try Nazi war crimes shut down.
The shock value of the spectacle that General Dwight D. Eisenhower witnessed at the Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 12, 1945, is now being revived on a smaller scale with the Tree of Life trial and a grisly attack in Las Vegas.
Benjamin Ferencz, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1947, died at the age of 103. Who was he and what was his impact on international justice?