Hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, here in florida, where my guest is 98 year old ben ferencz. He is the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. He also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. So does he believe that the Nuremberg Trials have made genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity less likely to be committed in The World Today . Ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. You were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. You moved to the United States with your family when you were a little baby. You really epitomise the american dream, a kind of Rags To Riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to Harvard Law School. We arrived in america. My parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. No money, no skills, no language. And lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn
He felt that the world was way too much on him and theres no way to know for sure, but i believe that kelley some level of consciousness and how Hermann Goring had made this grand suicidal statement the day before he was to be hanged and went out of his way and that is what kelley decided to do even to the point of using same poisonous agent. And even standing on the staircase where the family was assembled below and that, to me, really hearken back to Hermann Goring. Very public manner of suicide and i think his work had a great deal of significance in the world of psychiatry and the study of why people do what they do. And it started a big controversy. He published a book called 22 cells and nurnberg where he recounted his experiences with the nazi criminals and he gave his findings that he thought these men were not mentally ill, they didnt have any kind of disorder. And its something that many people did not want to hear. And it was a message that among the people who were in nurnb
American story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. We traveled to the Minnesota Historical society and hear about the 1920s and 30s gangster era. Bank robbers were seen as kind of anti heroes who were evening the score after the depression which is totally untrue. They were killers who wanted money, but the public saw the gangsters and a more romantic light. And you knew as you drank with them that they wouldnt kill you because they all had the deal between the cops and crooks. We start with a look at the influence st. Paul had on f. Scott fitzgeralds. You want to understand the modern world and where we are today there is no better place to start them looking at f. Scott fitzgerald because he was so complex, dealing with the complexity of American Life and that still resonates today. St. Paul, texas, a huge impact on fitzgeralds and he had an impact on st. Paul. St. Paul was the most important town of adam Scott Fitzgeralds legacy. He lived all over the world but the vast
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Over the years I had felt honored to have written about and photographed those who have served our country. I too, have a relative with an unusual experience while in