Harvard Alumni Profile: The Sorrow and the Hope

Wednesday 5 August '09

Benjamin Ferencz '43 had an opportunity Eli Rosenbaum could never have--to bring Nazis before a criminal tribunal. In 1947 Ferencz served as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial of 22 SS officers, including six generals, accused of mass murder. Part of Hitler's mobile killing squad, known as the Einsatzgruppen, the 22 defendants were convicted and 14 were sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a million people. Read more.