We Mourn the Passing of 103-Year-Old Nuremberg Prosecutor Ben Ferencz | USC Shoah Foundation — Transcript
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- 0:00Can you tell me about your opening statement?
- 0:03I can tell you about it.
- 0:05I can recite the whole statement.
- 0:07Well, I began by saying it is with sorrow and with hope
- 0:12that we here disclose
- 0:14the deliberate murder of innocent people.
- 0:16I meant by that, the sorrow
- 0:19was for the victims and the hope that we could prevent it in the future.
- 0:23That's what I meant by that.
- 0:25And I said, vengeance is not our goal,
- 0:28nor do we seek merely a just retribution.
- 0:31The case we present is a plea of humanity to all.
- 0:36And that was my aim.
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