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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.
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?
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Former soldier convicted Nazi war criminals of organising mass murder and German industrialists of using slave labour from concentration camps during the second World War
In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression.
Ben Ferencz, who is 103 and the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, talks about the trials' lasting legacy ahead of appearance at a local event.