• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      This excuse may not have worked for the Nazis in the end, but who is gonna Nuremberg trials the Americans? Nobody. There will never be justice.

    • Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca
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      Thats the same excuse ww2 German soldiers used, “I know its wrong to boil jew children and make soap out of them but o’ well, orders are orders haha lolkbye” or “well it’s just my job, I’m not really complicit, right?”

      🙄 Pathetic

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        Yeah. That was the intended reference but didn’t think it needed further explanation

        But basically the joined result of the trials was that orders can’t justify crime but in some cases make the punishment milder

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          I think most people know “just following orders” refers to Nazis. It’s a meme in the oldest sense: a shared cultural memory. It’s literally referred to as “the Nuremberg defense”.