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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know how widespread this is, but in the german army it is illegal to follow an order if you think it violates human rights. They specifically wanted to make a law against the "I was just following orders" excuse, you're still guilty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't be surprise if it were only Germany, due to the whole cultural guilt around WWII...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

It doesn’t prevent them from attracting a lot of neonazi’s and giving minimal (to no) punishment to said neonazi’s. It also hasn’t prevented then from committing war crimes in Afghanistan.