He was the last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials: At the age of 103 Benjamin Ferencz diedAt the age of 27, he served as chief prosecutor for the US Army during the "Einsatzgruppen Trial," one of the successors to the trial of the major Nazi war criminals. He had previously witnessed the horrors of the liberated concentration camps with his own eyes.
Ferencz was a lifelong advocate for the prosecution of genocides. He played a key role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court. In 2019, Ferencz was Honorary Chairman of the Aurora Prize Selection Committee, which is connected to the Volkermord an den Armenian remembered.
His statements about the Nazi entrepreneurs Günther and Herbert Quandt also attracted much attention: According to Ferencz, they would have been accused as the main perpetrators in Nuremberg if the British had not protected them in order to continue the production of military goods. The death of hundreds of forced laborers under the “personnel responsibility” of Herbert Quandt, this does not prevent journalists from almost all major media companies in Germany from applying for a journalism prize endowed with €50.000 in the name of the Nazi entrepreneur.
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