The article summarizes his life, and how he got to be a prosecutor at Nuremberg, which is a fascinating read. The baity title probably refers to this fragment:

The article summarizes his life, and how he got to be a prosecutor at Nuremberg, which is a fascinating read. The baity title probably refers to this fragment: Lesley Stahl: Did you meet a lot of people who perpetrated war crimes who would otherwise in your opinion have been just a normal, upstanding citizen? Benjamin Ferencz: Of course, is my answer. These men would never have been murderers had it not been for the war. These were people who could quote Goethe, who loved Wagner, who were polite-- Lesley Stahl: What turns a man into a savage beast like that? Benjamin Ferencz: He's not a savage. He's an intelligent, patriotic human being. Lesley Stahl: He's a savage when he does the murder though. Benjamin Ferencz: No. He's a patriotic human being acting in the interest of his country, in his mind. Lesley Stahl: You don't think they turn into savages even for the act? Benjamin Ferencz: Do you think the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was a savage? Now I will tell you something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people. So Ferencz has spent the rest of his life trying to deter war and war crimes by establishing an international court – like Nuremberg. He scored a victory when the international criminal court in The Hague was created in 1998. He delivered the closing argument in the court's first case.