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SUMMARY:Taubman Lecture: Nuremberg’s Prosecutor
LOCATION:Henley Hall 1010
DESCRIPTION:On September 29\, 1947\, in Courtroom 600\, before the Nurembe
 rg Military Tribunal\, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached 
 the lectern to deliver the prosecution’s opening statement against Hitler
 ’s brutal henchmen of the Einsatzgruppen\, the SS killing units responsib
 le for more than 1.5 million deaths during the Holocaust\, in what the As
 sociated Press dubbed “the biggest murder trial in history.” As the field
  of international criminal justice was being born in the aftermath of Wor
 ld War II\, only Ferencz led in all its phases: investigation\, prosecuti
 on\, and restitution. This was an extraordinary feat given his humble ori
 gins as an impoverished immigrant escaping antisemitic persecution in Eas
 tern Europe and growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. A Harvard Law sc
 holarship student\, Ferencz had been General Patton’s lead war crimes fie
 ld investigator before becoming a chief prosecutor at Nuremberg. Horrifie
 d by what he encountered\, he dedicated his career to Holocaust survivors
 \, pioneering key restitution efforts and helping negotiate the landmark 
 reparations treaty between West Germany\, Israel\, and Jewish civil socie
 ty. Later\, he became a peace advocate and driving force behind the creat
 ion of the International Criminal Court\, remarkably joining the prosecut
 ion for the Court’s first trial as the last living Nuremberg prosecutor. 
 In this lecture\, Gordon will share fascinating missing links running thr
 ough Ferencz’s career which throw into a whole new light his landmar\n\nh
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