The Nuremberg trials after World War II were historic -- the first international war crimes tribunals ever held. Hitler's top lieutenants were prosecuted first.

Shortly after fighting in World War II, American Benjamin Ferencz prosecuted his first court case. The defendants were Nazis, the place was Nuremberg. He recalls the trial on the 70th anniversary.

Famed CBS reporter Walter Cronkite recalls covering the Nuremberg war crimes trials in 1945. We hear some of the dramatic coverage -- and how the trials still echo in the events of today.

This narrative of World War II is protected by a 2021 Russian memory law that bans public discussion about Soviet collaboration with Nazi Germany or about Soviet war crimes during World War II—a ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...

What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know 13:49. It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz.