Re:Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War...
by anigbrowl on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:46PM
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Better to die with a clear conscience than to murder the innocent. If you were cunning you could take the commanding officer out instead.
Re:Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War...
by jtbayly on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:40PM
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The paper documents that those who resisted in the army and police suffered very little in the way of negative consequences. From the conclusion of the paper:
“There was not a uniform system of "terror-justice" operating automatically against those whose civil and moral courage forced them to declare "ohnemich!"(without me!). In fact, the opposite is true. In every case of documented refusal to obey orders to exterminate people, the coercive powers of the Nazi system proved to be impotent or ineffective.”
One way or the other, there will be few situations where such refusal is possible, much less written down.