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

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  • @犬の大将
    @犬の大将 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    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
      @denizbeytekin9853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      agree

    • @jinimurray4090
      @jinimurray4090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Lupinthe3rd.
      @Lupinthe3rd. ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @VforVendetta07
    @VforVendetta07 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @brianbrady4496
    @brianbrady4496 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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..

  • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
    @Starry_Night_Sky7455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @favirish
    @favirish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @prateek16
      @prateek16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Boring

  • @mikenavis2745
    @mikenavis2745 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @Jude74
      @Jude74 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He’s still working.

    • @kattia1966
      @kattia1966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Articulate and yet very understandable.

  • @kaycox5555
    @kaycox5555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @bluegender2005
    @bluegender2005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @rossbryan6102
    @rossbryan6102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @sliceofheaven3026
    @sliceofheaven3026 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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).

  • @zankeats4438
    @zankeats4438 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @historicrecord
    @historicrecord 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lucky audience to have heard this remarkable man live

  • @brenready2277
    @brenready2277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!!🌲🧑‍🎄🤶👼

  • @johnlinden7398
    @johnlinden7398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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 !

  • @dianasharp7793
    @dianasharp7793 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @johnlinden7398
    @johnlinden7398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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 !

  • @thomasvw29
    @thomasvw29 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Most informative and interesting watch best hour spent.

  • @garyyogi8902
    @garyyogi8902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

  • @davidking7222
    @davidking7222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @mrhs1159
    @mrhs1159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He is a walking history book.

  • @ArjayMartin
    @ArjayMartin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "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

  • @anemarie2984
    @anemarie2984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a GREAT MAN

  • @celticman1909
    @celticman1909 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @garyyogi8902
    @garyyogi8902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Remember your humanity and forget the rest wow

  • @gregormann7
    @gregormann7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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!”)

  • @Riddick600
    @Riddick600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great man, love him : ))

  • @davidthompson62
    @davidthompson62 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Lupinthe3rd.
      @Lupinthe3rd. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@steelydanlover1972 ge just died last weej at 103

  • @Orf
    @Orf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @celticman1909
    @celticman1909 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
    @Orf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @250txc
    @250txc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @Orf
    @Orf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    32:00 loopholes. Every law has loopholes

  • @tirtzaeyal7049
    @tirtzaeyal7049 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @garyyogi8902
    @garyyogi8902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @alanc1491
    @alanc1491 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Orf
    @Orf 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    36:30 the expanded definition of aggression

  • @pacajalbert9018
    @pacajalbert9018 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    V neemecku mali byť fabriky ktoré vyrábajú zbrane byť v exekúcii

  • @daviddavis9727
    @daviddavis9727 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's a sign for the past 😊

  • @williamarthurfenton1496
    @williamarthurfenton1496 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @colleenbraun5792
    @colleenbraun5792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @mockingbird3099
      @mockingbird3099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @skywriter9359
      @skywriter9359 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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…’

  • @anian04
    @anian04 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    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
      @andrewdeen1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      he is an american born in transylvania

    • @Jude74
      @Jude74 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @kaycox5555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Orf
    @Orf 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    29:00 Drones