While the Einsatzgruppen initially shot male Jews of military-service age, within several weeks they were shooting all Jews irrespective of gender, age or position in Soviet society.

Benjamin Ferencz, 96, is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. Even as Ferencz holds onto the images of death from the concentration camps from his time as a soldier and war ...

Nuremberg tried those death squad leaders. Einsatzgruppen trial is the largest murder trial in history — 24 convicted, 14 death sentences. Now, today.

And that's how 27-year-old Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 Einsatzgruppen commanders at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Judge: How do you plead to this indictment, guilty or not guilty?

Benjamin B. Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials, who convicted Nazi war criminals of organizing the murder of a million people and German industrialists of using slave ...

For the Einsatzgruppen trial, Mr. Ferencz stripped his presentation to a bare minimum: no witnesses other than a man who attested to the authenticity of the Nazis’ accounts of their own barbarism.

Benjamin Ferencz at the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg. In the nearly 70 years since he took part in the trials at Nuremberg, Ferencz has lived a remarkable life.

Then, students view and analyze three video clips that detail Benjamin Ferencz’s experiences as the lead prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen trial.

The Einsatzgruppen Trial became the largest murder trial in history. Of the 24 people indicted, all were convicted, and 13 received death sentences.

The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies after Germany was defeated in 1945, with an aim to bring Nazis to justice for crimes committed during World War II. The Einsatzgruppen trial was his ...

Benjamin Ferencz, who was chief prosecutor at Nuremberg's Einsatzgruppen trial for Nazi war crimes, has died at the age of 103. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ferencz served in the U.S ...

Sixty-three years after he won convictions in the Einsatzgruppen case, Ferencz was called upon to give closing remarks at the Hague in the first trial put on by the International Criminal Court in ...