Ben Ferencz: The Only Surviving Chief Prosecutor from the Nuremberg Tribunals

[@犬の大将]

95 years old at the time of this recording. Still being interviewed at the age of 100. Hope he stays with us for years to come.

[@denizbeytekin9853]

agree

[@jinimurray4090]

I pray he has his life right with GOD SO WE CAN HAVE HIM FOREVER!!!!!

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

sadly he passed away last week at 103 and was still sharp as a knife till the end

[@VforVendetta07]

What a special man. Wish I could have seen him in person.

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

Ben is a great person! Listen to him. His conscientious wisdom is incredibly valuable.

[@brianbrady4496]

I absolutely love this guy. I've listened to many of his lectures. He is a true American hero. And yes we use the word hero way too often these days. But this man truly deserves the title..

[@favirish]

This is definitely the best way to spend an hour of your life. Thank you very much for uploading this!

[@prateek16]

Boring

[@mikenavis2745]

I could have listened to this man speak all day. Very articulate and still very much a lawyer even in his old age.

[@Jude74]

He’s still working.

[@kattia1966]

Articulate and yet very understandable.

[@rossbryan6102]

AMAZING SPEAKER WITH A DEADLY ACCURACY!! WELL GIVEN WITH A GOOD DEAL OF HUMOR AND SELF DEPRECATION!!

[@kaycox5555]

Amazing talk, amazing life and man. Thank you sir.

[@johnlinden7398]

I HAVE LONG ADMIRED BENJAMIN FOR HIS WORK AS AN ADVOCAT FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW AND PEACE ! HIS TALKS MOST PROFOUNDLY RESONATE WITH ME ! BRAVO BEN !

[@zankeats4438]

Absolutely awesome!!! I thank you so very much, sir, for doing this.... It is needed now, just as it was in the past.

[@historicrecord]

Lucky audience to have heard this remarkable man live

[@bluegender2005]

Why the f, hasn´t this magnificent bloke gotten a nobel peace prize already?

[@sliceofheaven3026]

Must say this is a brilliant lecture. If i would have had a teacher like this I might have wanted to study law and specialize in human rights cases. Though that one person seems to be examining his finger nails in the background or he is just sleeping (around 40 min mark).

[@brenready2277]

Wow, it's dec, 2021 now! We really need the young, the old, everyone in the world, now more than ever, to stand up and fight the case at hand!! Never give up!!! ❤✌🙏🌎 Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all!!🌲🧑‍🎄🤶👼

[@usewisdom2]

Right!

[@dianasharp7793]

Thank God in Heaven for him. ❤️ So much love.

[@thomasvw29]

Most informative and interesting watch best hour spent.

[@johnlinden7398]

REMARKABLE MAN, REMARKABLE TALK AND MESSAGE ! HIS BOOK "PLANETHOOD" SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN ALL SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUMS GLOBALLY ! IT'S THAT IMPORTANT TO SOLVE SO MANY OF OUR VEXING SELF CREATING HUMAN PROBLEMS !

[@davidking7222]

Loved the book , planet hood . I still read it to this day .

[@garyyogi8902]

He is a walking Legend he made the first case proving that there is such a thing as crime against humanity that's a pretty big thing that's a pretty big thing he proved

[@ArjayMartin]

"Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Judge, Dies June 4, 1986 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Charles Frederick Wennerstrum, who presided over and sharply criticized some of the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II, has died of a heart attack at the age of 96. Wennerstrum, who died Sunday at his Des Moines home, was a judge in the trials of Nazi leaders in 1947 and 1948 while on leave from the Iowa Supreme Court. He blasted what he saw as prosecutors’ nationalistic and biased approaches to the trials, suggesting that some of them were more interested in furthering their own careers than in seeing that justice was done. ″The trials were to have convinced the Germans of the guilt of their leaders. They convinced the Germans merely that they lost the war to tough conquerors,″ Wennerstrum told the Chicago Tribune in 1948. Later, he said prosecutors ″failed to maintain an objectivity aloof from vindictiveness ... The high ideals announced as the motive for creating these tribunals have not been evident.″ Wennerstrum served on the Iowa Supreme Court from 1941 to 1958. He also was a U.S. district court judge for 10 years and had private law practices in Chariton and Adel. Wennerstrum was defeated in a close 1958 Iowa Supreme Court election, making him the last justice voted off the bench before the governor began making appointments to the high court in 1962. He is survived by a daughter, nine grandchildren and four great- grandchildren . A memorial service was scheduled for Wednesday in Des Moines." So maybe not 'fair trial'... apnews.com/article/7a8ef1233e68f3459364f3159b6910cb

[@mrhs1159]

He is a walking history book.

[@anemarie2984]

What a GREAT MAN

[@celticman1909]

Being in my thirties during the Bosnian - Herzegovina conflict I had never heard the term "Ethnic Cleansing" before those days. I wondered why it wasn't being called Genocide! As that was obviously what was happening. I read somewhere that if the term Genocide was used then the United Nations would be legally bound to set certain actions in motion according to their charter. It was easier for them to use a new term so as to play semantics and shirk their responsibility to act.

[@gregormann7]

Peace is a function of having been genuinely reconciled to the living God, the Creator of all that exists, the Source of all Life, the ground of all Being. (God; NOT “religion!”)

[@davidthompson62]

Sad he’s gone, we need more men like him.

[@Lupinthe3rd.]

@@steelydanlover1972 ge just died last weej at 103

[@garyyogi8902]

Remember your humanity and forget the rest wow

[@Orf]

35:20 “I had an office in the pentagon and the horrors are real

[@Riddick600]

Great man, love him : ))

[@garyyogi8902]

This man makes you believe in the Old Testament begin Again he seems to have a spirit around him like Moses where he went through hell and in his 10th decade of life still has a mind as Sharp As a Razor a memory like a sponge courage of a lion and walking lifetime wisdom who fought the good fight the hard fight a fight that at 94 years old he still on fire but the top it off he still kept his Humanity he's humility and most of all sense of humor because when you lose your sense of humor you lost all your sense if you couldn't tell by now I admired his man tremendously I'm 56 years old and felt old hard to feel that way after watching this man

[@Orf]

39:55 go and do it, go and do it!

[@celticman1909]

It's telling that in a retirement visit to Vietnam, Gen. Norman Schwartszkopf voiced the same conclusion as Mr. Ferencz, "war is insanity". So typical of humankind to abandon the center piece of the United Nations charter in being enabled to enforce actions against rouge states independently, based upon international law. Let some time go by and people forgot the horrors of world War. As long as nations have their own military identity and armed forces in their own societies, the old Roman proverb will remain relevant; "In time of war, the law falls silent".

[@Orf]

32:00 loopholes. Every law has loopholes

[@tirtzaeyal7049]

the americans knew what happens in the concentration camps in real time but they prefered not to wiggle a finger!!!!!

[@250txc]

Wise man but in the minority of humans ... Stupid people will ~never understand his words. Sociopaths, psychopaths, and narcissists personality types can not understand human suffering ... Sad, but this is humanity today and in the future. -- His remarks on holding people responsible for their actions just does not exist today.

[@colleenbraun5792]

Trump needs to be brought before the Int'l criminal court for his crimes to humanity during this Covid19 crisis

[@mockingbird3099]

Why not any high-ranking CCP official? Why do you choose to exempt Chinese officials from responsibility for their inhumanity?

[@skywriter9359]

Stop hating the wrong guy. Try CCP, Fauci,BILL Gates. Klaus Schwab. Etc. Trump tried to tell us about other medical treatments but big pharma and media pRopogandized about the treatments…’

[@alanc1491]

Was he one of those who were fine with the accused being tortured for their confessions?

[@Orf]

36:30 the expanded definition of aggression

[@daviddavis9727]

There's a sign for the past 😊

[@williamarthurfenton1496]

Is he not going to credit Bertrand Russell as well as Einstein for "Remember your humanity and forget the rest"

[@pacajalbert9018]

V neemecku mali byť fabriky ktoré vyrábajú zbrane byť v exekúcii

[@Orf]

29:00 Drones

[@anian04]

I am sorry, the speaker is wrong. He is Hungarian, from Transylvania which was part of Hungary before the Romanian occupation. Its not the same. Even he says that " I was born in Transylvania...which does not exist anymore".

[@andrewdeen1]

he is an american born in transylvania

[@Jude74]

He was born in 1920. My grandfather was born in 1904 in the exact same location and self identified as Austrian because it was part of Austria-Hungary which was what they called it in 1904. He never ever identified as Romanian.

[@kaycox5555]

So, who cares? I think the point was HE identifies as being born Romanian AND the country's boundaries changed.