"I shut off my brain. I said, this is not real," he says of his time in the camp. "These are victims here and i can't stop ad think and think." He wrote that prisoners were so frail many were being carried like babies to a field hospital. The inmates caught one of the guards,. they beat em up. They then took him to the crematori and put him in alive. Did i try to stop it? I did not. Could i have stopped it? Probably not. A do i remember it? I do. Do you know who was at ebonsea during World War II? Email jennifer.smith@mailonline.co
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Germany’s death squad. The entire world was watching.
Today, we take a look at the Nuremberg trials and their role in defining international law after World War II.
This episode originally aired in 2018—this version includes an update with Benjamin Ferencz, who celebrated his 101st birthday earlier this year.
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