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Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

Benjamin B. Ferencz

Benjamin B. Ferencz

Benjamin B. Ferencz

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Born: March 11, 1920

Died: April 7, 2023 (aged 103)

Bio: Benjamin Berell Ferencz was a Hungarian-born American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the twelve military trials held by the U.S.

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