On March 13, 1944, German U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to machine-gun the survivors of the SS Peleus. We caught them and, after a fair trial, executed them on November 30, 1945. Their claim that they “were just following orders” is exactly what every Nazi we ever put on trial said. It did not work then and it does not work now. It is well past time for an entire chain of command to lawyer up.
Jon Young
Midtown
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