Comments on: Orders

By: sue

sue — Thu, 20 May 2004 02:21:51 +0000

No, I imagine a court martial of some sort- Leavenworth and all that.

Sorry. It all upset me very, very much.

By: mig

mig — Tue, 18 May 2004 11:38:47 +0000

anne made an interesting point in her email to me about the fact that someone refusing to obey orders under the Nazi regime, say, faced the death penalty, while the consequences of disobeying these orders for the Americans would not have been so harsh.

By: sue

sue — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:17:20 +0000

Mig, I can’t tell you how very interesting and – in a way- disturbing I have found this.

It makes me wonder – do people see the parallel or not ?

And – if so- is it so very important not to disturb the waters . What can I say. It’s that time of year once again. I’m re- reading a book about Anne Frank. Soon , The Longest Day will be on television- yet again.

And seriously re-thinking the concept of life ( death) as content-

By: sue

sue — Fri, 14 May 2004 15:03:51 +0000

I guessed right. I seem to recall that the justification for the trials- at the time- was that there were crimes against humanity which could not be tolerated, that moral responsibility must be taken for individual actions. That ‘I was just following orders’ would no longer be a redmptive excuse.

Literally taken , the comparison is apt.

By: anne

anne — Fri, 14 May 2004 13:31:28 +0000

I don’t think it’s exactly fair to compare this to the Nazis….
sorry. this will be bandwidth sucking in extreme. i’m going to write to you instead.