Obituaries
Benjamin Ferencz, Last of the Nuremberg Prosecutors, Dies at 103
- Documents seized from Nazis provided indisputable evidence
- He won compensation payments for concentration camp survivors
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Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the trials at Nuremberg that held Nazi death-squad leaders accountable for killing more than 1 million people in Eastern Europe during World War II, has died. He was 103.
He died on April 7 in Boynton Beach, Florida, the Associated Press reported, citing St. John’s University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials.