Ferencz made it his life’s mission to ensure that any figure or regime that perpetrated war crimes would be held accountable in a way that produced lasting change — living according to a simple maxim that he strove to bring into reality: “Law, not war.”
— some of Hitler’s most zealous butchers were doctors and lawyers, cultured family men so seized by the fervor of antisemitism that they saw nothing wrong with murdering babies. If anything, they relished in the horrors they unleashed.. “One thing they all had in common was a fervent desire to serve their Fuehrer, even if that meant killing enormous numbers of innocent men, women, and children.
Several of the defendants were given death penalties, a punishment that Ferencz had not sought. He was disturbed by that sentence, canceling a party he’d planned to hold after the trial was over. Born in 1920, Ferencz was brought by his peasant parents from a Transylvanian village to the West Side of Manhattan. He earned admission to Townsend Harris, one of the city’s best public schools, and then to the City College of New York, an intellectual hothouse then known as the “Jewish Harvard.” Ferencz represented an American generation that saw the United States as a force for good in the world.
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