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'No one showed any sign of remorse': The heroic US lawyer who put Nazi death squad members on trial at Nuremberg (opens the original)
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On 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice. "I wrote somewhere that I had peered into hell – I think hell would be paradise compared to what I saw." In 2017, Ben Ferencz told the BBC about witnessing harrowing scenes at the Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of World War Two – an experience that led to his becoming, aged 27, the youngest US prosecutor at th
'This is a story about buried treasure': The 1970s tomb raiders who plundered 'million-dollar pots' (opens the original)
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It was one of the finest pieces of art ever bought by the Met. But it had been excavated by an Italian grave robber, then smuggled to the US. In 1975, the BBC investigated the lucrative global trade in stolen antiquities. In September 1972, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) purchased an ancient Greek vase for $1.2m ($9.6m or £7.1m today). Created around 515BC and signed by the painter Euphronios, it is considered one of the best surviving examples of ancient Greek pottery. "From th
'Locked to the Sun and Moon': The startling 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer (opens the original)
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In August 1966, a US astronomy professor shared his astonishing findings with the BBC. He believed that the Neolithic stone circle was built to predict eclipses. Experts have long debated the meaning of Stonehenge, the prehistoric stone circle in the south-west of England. They have speculated that the mysterious monument might have been a place to commemorate the dead, a sacrificial altar, or a site of other religious ceremonies. But in August 1966, a Boston astronomy professor, Gerald Hawkins,
'We couldn't believe our eyes': The 'real Indiana Jones' who found an ancient, lost city of the Incas (opens the original)
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In 1911, a US professor claimed he had discovered the ancient mountain stronghold of the last Incan king deep in the Peruvian Andes. Yet 53 years later, another explorer proved he was mistaken – and shortly afterwards, a BBC crew followed his trail. "No one now disputes that this was the site of ancient Vilcabamba." So wrote the Yale academic who brought the Peruvian ruins of Machu Picchu to global attention in 1911. Hiram Bingham III was recruited by locals to look for a lost Incan city fabled
'I didn't think of stopping at any time': A US physicist's inside account of Nagasaki's atomic bombing in WW2 (opens the original)
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On 9 August 1945, a plutonium bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, bringing an end to World War Two. In an interview with the BBC 30 years later, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed why the blast couldn't be stopped – and the plans for more. "It was not for lack of concern for humanity – it was because of a concern for humanity. Perhaps that was the sin." Thirty years after he took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, the US physicist Philip
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