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wackyteen posted...

From Wikipedia:

The 'in part' makes this feel like two sides of the same coin, at minimum <_< but I guess some people do view them as distinct.

At the Nazi trials in Nuremberg, many Nazis offered up a defense of "just following orders" or some variant like "If I didn't do it, someone else would have done it anyway." And everyone knows the story about how "Just following orders" isn't an acceptable defense for genocide.

The lesser known story is they weren't following orders at all. When asked to provide proof of the orders for the crimes they were accused of, not a single one of them could do so. That leads us to the question, what the hell were the actual orders?

Well if you're interested in the answer, there's a video on it here:
https://youtu.be/uQsGUndg_Vc

But the tl;dr is that the order Hitler gave that led to the most infamous genocide in history was to simply "Begin the Ethnic Cleansing of Germany."

And as a bonus, if you do watch that video, and get to know a little more about Hitler's style of governing and how orders were given out, the similarities to Trump are striking. And it's not like Trump intentionally studied Hitler's governance and attempted to imitate it. They just naturally came to the same conclusions because that's just how their personalities were.