Mr Ferencz secured convictions of numerous German officers who led roving death squads during the war and remained a longtime advocate for international law and justice following the trials.
Law is always better than war: Nuremberg trials prosecutor dies aged 103
Former chief prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen Trial Benjamin Ferencz in 2010. Source: AAP / Armina Weigel
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Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials which brought Nazi war criminals to justice following the Second World War has died.
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