05-12-2011, 02:32 PM
(05-12-2011, 02:09 PM)Duchess Wrote:(05-12-2011, 02:03 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: decline and die. you can go to the gas chamber too. but many who did not decline were very zealous in murder.
Do you think that's ever taken into consideration. I would think extenuating circumstances would apply in some cases. Hells bells, I would have been a guard to save my own ass.
that comes under the heading of "i was only following orders". but if you do it to save your own ass and at the same time relish outright murder, you are a war criminal.
the systematic murder of 6 million European Jews -- were set and carried out by the German Nazi regime, the murders could not have taken place without the participation of myriads of Europeans on many levels. Their role was also criminal.