Benjamin Friends Is the Last Survivor

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Benjamin friends is the last surviving prosecutor of what's been called the largest murder trial in history, a trial with more than a million victims. I've never met anybody like him. He has a wild sense of humor that i wasn't expecting from someone who's had such a serious career. Benjamin friendz was admitted to a new york city high school for gifted students and went on enter harvard law school. Then the war broke out while i was at school. Japan attacked the united states. Everybody that i knew went down to enlist. I went too. Let me skip along because it's been a long life. This is criminal my sister was born in the same bed that i

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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