Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis dies at 103.

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Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis dies at 103.
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Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, has died at the age of 103. Ferencz prosecuted Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps. He became chief prosecutor for a 1947 case in which 22 former Nazi commanders were charged with murdering over 1 million Jews, Gypsies and other enemies of the Third Reich in Eastern Europe. Ferencz championed the creation of an international court which could prosecute any government's leaders for war crimes.

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