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Ben Ferencz - 'Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The last surviving Nuremberg Trials prosecutor, who at 99 is the subject of a new Barry Avrich documentary, reflects on taking on Nazis, his fight for an International Criminal Court and the Trump Administration. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, and recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst and Joshua Farnham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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brought to you by succession on HBO. The second season was hailed by critics

0:51.6

as the best show on TV, as well as beautifully written and superbly acted.

0:56.7

Four-year SAG Awards consideration in all categories, including outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series.

1:03.8

My guest today is a bona fide American hero.

1:06.8

He is a Hungarian-born Jew who emigrated to the United States as a child, served in the

1:11.4

U.S. Army during World War II, became an investigator of Nazi war crimes as the war wound to a close, and then after it ended at the age of just 27, became a prosecutor at one of the 12 Nuremberg trials, and today, just a few months

1:25.9

shy of his 100th birthday, is the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor.

1:30.6

He spent his post-Nuremberg career as a highly respected and successful lawyer.

1:34.8

He was instrumental in the creation of the International Criminal Court in the Hague back in 2002,

1:40.6

and he is now the subject of an excellent documentary feature about his life from the Canadian filmmaker Barry average and the US distributor vertical entertainment

1:48.3

called Prosecuting Evil the extraordinary world of Ben Ferrens which was greeted with widespread

1:54.4

acclaim following its premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film

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