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In German law, the Eichmann lesson was the opposite: it created (or, more accurately : recognized) a moral duty to refuse to follow unlawful orders. They didn’t let Eichmann get away with his just-following-orders excuse. And subsequently, this principle was explicitly added to the law. German soldiers, for example, are specifically instructed by law, and swear to it as part of their oath, that they will refuse to participate in genocide etc.



Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to German police.


Because the german police was recently involved in genocide?

Come on, surely there are some dark (right wing extremism) patterns in german police too, especially eastern germany - but I really doubt you would find many police men, who would murder on order. Eager to shoot certain population in case of doubt maybe, but not plain murder. That is unnecessary exageration.




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