At 97, Ben Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive and he has a far-reaching message for today’s world
Source: What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know – CBS News, by Lesley Stahl
“Do you think the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was a savage? Now I will tell you something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.”
“Well, if it’s naive to want peace instead of war, let ’em make sure they say I’m naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don’t say they’re naive, I say they’re stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don’t even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them.”
— Benjamin Ferencz