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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 t need any boots made in new york, there were no cowboys. but the owner of a building offered us the opportunity to sleep in the cellar and my father would be the janitor. and that s where we began and that s where my memory begins, in a high crime density area known ....
as president putin begins drafting new troops in the fight in ukraine. some flights out of russia have sold out. also in the programme. the bank of england raises interest rates to their highest level for m years it warns the uk may already been in recession. and a fracking ban in england is lifted in a bid to increase energy production but critics say the move could harm the environment and trigger earthquakes. the us secretary of state has said russia s president, vladimir putin, can t get away with shredding international order over his invasion of ukraine. he was speaking at a special meeting of the united nations security council. here s what else he had to say. even the number of nations that maintain close ties with moscow have said publicly that they have serious questions and concerns about president putin s ongoing invasion. rather than change course, however, president putin has doubled down, choosing not to end the war but to expand it. that expansion ....
The lesson of nuremberg. we have made progress, i ll come back to it, but first, let me emphasise the fact i learned that war makes murderers, mass murderers, out of otherwise decent people. and it applies to all wars and all nationalities and i ve seen it in all the wars. these are not wild animals who are out for blood. these are patriots who are trying to do their duty to protect either their religion or their nationality or their economic security. these are the three major causes. we have not learned that you cannot kill an ideology with a gun. we still go at it with the same stupid approach of spending all of your assets on building weapons and more weapons that kill more people and depriving people of the things they need ....
The same for gypsies and any other perceived or suspected opponents of the reich. no such trial had been planned. i flew down to berlin, from berlin to nuremberg, to talk to general telford taylor, who was the judge, and he said, we can t put on this trial now because all the lawyers are already assigned, the trials are in process. the pentagon hasn t approved it. i doubt if they will approve it. and i said, i have here in my hand, i had samples, mass murder on a scale never before seen in human history. you can t let these guys go. he said, can you do it in addition to your other work? and i said, sure. and i did. and i rested my case in two days. you said you wanted to prosecute the officers. you weren t as interested in the foot soldiers. you wanted to get the educated officers amongst them. it s very hard for the public today to understand the special extermination squads einsatzgruppen, the german word means action groups were 3,000 men. i selected, of the 3,0 ....