Of the 24 men indicted, Martin Bormann was tried in absentia, Krupp was too ill to stand trial, and Robert Ley committed suicide, leaving 21 in the dock. Former Nazis were allowed to serve as counsel and by mid-November all defendants had lawyers.
The JudgesU.S. Francis Biddle (primary judge) John J. ... Great Britain. Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (primary judge and President of the IMT in Nuremberg) Norman Birkett (alternate judge)France. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres (primary judge) Robert Falco (alternate judge)USSR. Iona T. Nikitschenko (primary judge)
5'2″But his path towards a pioneering career in war crimes prosecution and peace advocacy was not immediately clear. Elementary schools looked at the young Ferencz's physical stature (as an adult, he barely reached 5'2″) and thought he was too small to enrol.Mar 11, 2020
JewishThere is nobody alive in the world with Ferencz's perspective. As the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, he has witnessed more in his lifetime than most. He was born into a Jewish family in Transylvania in 1920 and they moved to New York when he was 10 months old.Feb 7, 2017
The chief prosecutors for the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg came from four nations. They were: Robert H. Jackson for the United States; Hartley Shawcross for the United Kingdom; General R. A. Rudenko for the Soviet Union; and François de Menthon and Auguste Champetier de Ribes for France.
Benjamin Berell Ferencz (born March 11, 1920) is an 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 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany.
AmericanBenjamin Ferencz / Nationality
PronunciationIPA: [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s] (phonetic respelling: Ferenc)Hyphenation: Fe‧rencz.Rhymes: -ɛnt͡s.
199 defendantsThe United States held 12 additional trials in Nuremberg after the initial International Military Tribunal. In all, 199 defendants were tried, 161 were convicted, and 37 were sentenced to death.
The ICC held its first hearing in 2006, concerning war crimes charges against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese warlord accused of recruiting child soldiers; his subsequent conviction in 2012 was the first in the court's history.
The Nuremberg Trial lasted from November 1945 to October 1946. The tribunal found nineteen individual defendants guilty and sentenced them to punishments that ranged from death by hanging to fifteen years' imprisonment.
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