Are You Still Working Away?

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I am optimistic. We have made progress, but we cannot reverse what has been idolized and held for centuries, and that is the glory of war. And i think the notion that war is glorious because it's so ambedded will take more than one human life to change and turn it around. Iam still trying to save the world, a by a, substituting law for war. The mayor had somece ation for me the other day, few days ago. They declared it had an o benfor renstay,. So i got a lot of that kind of celebrations. Which keep me from doing constructive work.

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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