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Criminal

Episode 177: Palace of Justice

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Germany’s death squad. The entire world was watching. Today, we take a look at the Nuremberg trials and their role in defining international law after World War II. This episode originally aired in 2018—this version includes an update with Benjamin Ferencz, who celebrated his 101st birthday earlier this year. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Criminal is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Reading is through you all. My name is Benjamin Forens and I'm being interviewed in Delray

0:59.5

Beach, Florida. We'll either request to give you an outline of what I've been doing with

1:04.9

my life and some things which may be of interest and hopefully will lead to a more humane

1:10.8

and better world.

1:12.5

I met Benjamin Forens at his home. We sat side by side into computer chairs at his desk

1:18.3

and if I had any idea that I was going to be the one leading the conversation, I quickly

1:23.7

learned I was wrong.

1:25.3

Where did I get these peculiar ideas? Well, I was born 99 years ago in a little village

1:33.0

in Transylvania. Now I know that most of you have never heard of Transylvania, although

1:38.2

you have some connection with my uncle Dracula. Of course, there is no such uncle, but there

1:43.7

was a Transylvania.

1:46.6

Everything about him seems much younger than his 99 years. Part of that might be because

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