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Superior orders
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Superior orders, also known as just following orders or the Nuremberg defense, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether civilian, military or police, should not be considered guilty of commi
Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg trials From left to right, front to back: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel,
Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg trials From left to right, front to back: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel
Hagenbach on trial, from Berner Chronik des Diebold Schilling dem Älteren
Hagenbach on trial, from Berner Chronik des Diebold Schilling dem Älteren
Dostler tied to a stake before the execution
Dostler tied to a stake before the execution
Photo of the trial at Nuremberg, depicting the defendants, guarded by American Military Police
Photo of the trial at Nuremberg, depicting the defendants, guarded by American Military Police
Adolf Eichmann
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Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel, a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in th
Superior orders
…involvement in the Vietnam War) that they believed to be criminal. The defense of superior orders again arose in the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel, as well as the trial of Alfredo Astiz of Argentina, who was responsible for many disappearances and kidnappings that took place during its…
Eichmann in 1942
Eichmann in 1942
Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937
Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937
Memorial to Holocaust victims at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfürstenstraße 115/116,
Memorial to Holocaust victims at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfürstenstraße 115/116, Berlin, now occupied by a hotel
Hungarian woman and children arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May or June 1944 (photo from the Auschwitz Album).
Hungarian woman and children arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May or June 1944 (photo from the Auschwitz Album).