Ben Ferencz was just 27 when he convicted 22 Nazi officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War Two Nuremberg trials has died aged 103.
Ferencz died peacefully in his sleep on Friday evening at an assisted living facility in Boynton Beach, Florida. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1943, he enlisted in the US Army and took part in the Allied landings at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He rose to the rank of Sergeant and ultimately joined a team tasked with investigating and gathering evidence of Nazi war crimes.
He described Buchenwald - one of the largest camps inside Germany - as a "charnel house of indescribable horrors". Of the 22 men on trial, all were convicted, with 13 of them receiving death sentences and four ultimately being executed.
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