ladies and gentlemen, has your boss ever
told you to do something you didn’t want
to do? Show of hands don’t be shy.
uh-huh
but let me guess you did it anyway, maybe
you had a kid to feed, a career to look
after in estate in Berlin to pay for.
which one of us are immune to Life’s
pressures?
it’s the same whether we’re lowly sold out or the reichsMarshal can we really be blamed for everything our workplace does?
well the prosecution certainly thinks so.
I mean, get a load of all these charges, looking at them you’d think my client was the only Nazi west of the Rhine!
let’s see here, “plundering works of art.”
well that’s just a harsh way of saying he protected Europe’s Treasures through a tumultuous period, the fact the prosecution documented these works as evidence shows they’re all safe and Sound. and they’re beautiful, what is that, a Raphael? just look at that.
“disappearances of political opponents”
well if every Nazi was so awful what’s the problem? here’s a joke for you, what’s the difference between a tick and a Nazi?
it doesn’t matter because the whole
thing was under the infamous night and fog decree.
A fitting name because the details of those so-called “disappearances” are so nebulous and uncertain you’d need leeway longer than the Gustav gun to attribute it to one man.
“mistreatment of prisoners of War”
Okay, okay, we’ve all seen the photos and they’re hard to see, those gaunt, emaciated, figures really stick with you.
but I’ll tell you lots of people when hungry, Nazis included, why? it was the Allied blockade, and they certainly didn’t make exceptions for prisoner rations but you don’t see ol’ Admiral Dudley pound on the stand now do you now?
here’s the big one folks, “murder of six million Jews”
That’s unbelievable! Who could do something like that?
no I mean Really, who could? I’m no Professor but let’s do some math-