The
case of the conscience of Adolf Eichmann, which is admittedly complicated but
is by no means unique, is scarcely comparable to the case of the German
generals, one of whom, when asked at Nuremberg, “How was it possible that all
you honorable generals could continue to serve a murderer with such
unquestioning loyalty?,” replied that it was “not the task of a soldier to act
as judge over his supreme commander. Let history do that or God in heaven.”
(Thus General Alfred Jodl, hanged at Nuremberg.)
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