Last Surviving Nuremberg Trials Prosecutor: Putin Should Be 'Behind Bars'

By JPost
Posted on 03/05/22 | News Source: JPost

Former prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, who worked at the Nuremberg Trials (the trial of Hitler's German leaders), stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be convicted of crimes against humanity committed by the Russian military in Ukraine, according to multiple reports.

Ferencz, a New Yorker from a family of Jewish immigrants, was tasked with setting up a Nazi war crimes branch in 1944, which meant seeing horrific sights at concentration camps firsthand.

"The crimes that Russia is currently committing against Ukraine are a disgrace to human society, and those responsible must be held accountable for aggression, crimes against humanity, and murder." Ferencz told The Mirror.

According to Ferencz, Putin may be imprisoned in the same way as Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb leader, who was accused of genocide.

"This is very realistic (imprisonment of the President of the Russian Federation - UE). All you need is the determination to do it because they (Russians) do not live on the moon. I want to see Putin behind bars, it is possible," Ferencz added.