(Washington Post) Karen Heller - Ben Ferencz, 96, is the last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War II Nuremberg trials. His Nuremberg case, which the Associated Press called "the biggest murder trial in history," involved the Einsatzgruppen, roving extermination squads led by Nazi officers that were responsible for more than a million deaths. He presented precisely one witness, who certified Nazi documents that recorded the slaughter of Jews, gypsies and other civilians. "They were so sure they were going to win! The Germans were great at documentation," Ferencz says. "If these men be immune, then law has lost its meaning," he told the courtroom. All 22 defendants were found guilty. After Nuremberg, Ferencz worked for years seeking restitution for individuals and organizations. "I was known as a lawyer who takes hopeless but morally well-founded cases on a contingency basis," he says.
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