To David, natural law was the expression of rightness and justice for, and the rights and freedoms that protected every member of humanity and give them the confidence that they need not fear authority.

This is the second of a short series looking at how the peace was won after the Second World War through the eyes of a Nuremberg prosecutor who went on to champion and draft the ECHR. These blogs look forward to commemorative performances of Sue Casson’s Dreams of Peace & Freedom which will remember its birth from the ashes of a decimated Europe and celebrate the protections of the Convention in this its 75th anniversary year.

Liberation in the winter of 1945 was an uncertain, messy and dangerous business. Thousands died as they danced their unsteady march in the depths of Silesian winter, as the landscape transformed from deep frozen to deep mud over the weeks of the march.