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Volume IV · Page 88
| is made to the provision of the German
Military Code, that the participant in the execution of an illegal order
renders himself liable to punishment; to this we may object that the
authoritarian state would have declared that every kind of resistance against
the crime is in itself a crime. In addition terrorist and tendentious sentences
did the rest to spread the conviction that any sort of resistance was condemned
to failure and therefore meant only a useless and consequently senseless
sacrifice. As to the order given by the Reich Security Main Office to Blobel in 1943 to open the mass graves in the East and to destroy the corpses completely, no argument for the defendant is needed in this respect. It cannot be understood why the burning or the destruction of corpses is supposed to be a criminal act, no matter why and by whom the executions were carried out. |
