Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice - Hardcover

Report copyright infringement by Gregory S. Gordon (Author) The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver the prosecution's opening statement against Hitler's brutal henchmen of the Einsatzgruppen--the SS killing units responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths during the Holocaust--in what the Associated Press dubbed "the biggest murder trial in history." As the field of international criminal justice was being born in the aftermath of World War II, only Ferencz led in all its phases: investigation, prosecution, and restitution--an extraordinary feat given his humble origins as an impoverished immigrant escaping antisemitic persecution in Eastern Europe and growing up in New York's Hell's Kitchen. A Harvard Law scholarship student, Ferencz had