Seventy-six years ago, at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg – once the site of annual torchlit Nazi rallies – Ben Ferencz, a punchy 27-year-old whose short build was all but concealed behind the tall wooden podium, opened the biggest murder trial in history. It was his first ever trial, but all 22 members of the Einsatzgruppen he was prosecuting – Nazi extermination squads responsible for the murder of a million Jews and other minorities – were duly convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ferencz, last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, died on Friday in Florida at...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
