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May 2023
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Ep. 264: 'Law is always better than war'...

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Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials which brought Nazi war criminals to justice following the Second World War, has died. - È morto Benjamin Ferencz, l'ultimo procuratore vivente dei processi di Norimberga, che assicurarono alla giustizia i criminali di guerra nazisti dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. 
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