Benjamin B. Ferencz

Those who simply wanted to see the Nazis punished for their acts during the war were not particularly concerned with the specifics of criminal procedure, but many thoughtful people were worried that the Nuremberg Trials would be a sham because the accused had such a notorious reputation that their rights would be trampled or ignored. However, Benjamin B. Ferencz, a prosecutor at Nuremberg, notes that the trial was open so that no one could accuse the major powers of wrongdoing and that any effort to railroad the defendants would have been plain to all. If anything the Allies bent over backwards to treat the Germans fairly, from allowing the defendants to choose any lawyer they wanted to providing their counsels with generous rations, salaries, and other perks. Most technical rules also favored...