Have you seen this movie? I watched it last night. It was very interesting to see what went on at this trial. The movie seems to chronologue the entire trial from start to finish, but in reality, it only went over the high ranking crimes. It was the last case and went from 1948 until 1949.

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The Ministries Case Twenty-one defendants, including three Reich Ministers, as well other members of the Nazi Party hierarchy, charged with waging wars of aggression, violating international treaties, and committing various crimes of war and crimes against humanity. Jan. 6, 1948
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Apr. 13, 1949 Nineteen defendants found guilty on at least one charge and sentenced to terms ranging from four to twenty-five years.

What was interesting is how many of them stated “we were just following orders.”

And the reply was “You followed your orders to murder 6 million Jews, systematically?”

“Yes. If we did not do our jobs we would be killed. TO disagree with Hitler was death.”

So I’m thinking, what if I were in the same position, or what if you were in the same position. You are a Minister of the Interior, you have been caught up in this situation where you may not agree with everything but its 1940 and Germany is plowing through Europe and is the most powerful country at this point in time in the world. Hitler comes to you and says, “We need to work on this final solution. We need to Evacuate the 3 million Jews that are in Germany, and the 3 million or so we’ve taken up while occupying our new territory.”

Now, these terms are merely loose terms but they outline the idea of doing horrendous things to them, in order to quickly, costly, eliminate the Jews from German society. Now, knowing that if you disagree with Hitler that you will be killed. And knowing that if Germany looses the war that most likely you would be shot for war crimes. What would you do?

Clearly they separated their emotions to do what they did. The concentration camps show that. How can anyone in their right mind do that and not have any sort of guilt for what they did?

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