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Range began covering the military while in Germany. He reported on the tense atmosphere in West Berlin following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1969, he interviewed Albert Speer, Hitler's Munitions Minister, who was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and wrote Inside the Third Reich. They struck up an acquaintanceship and still exchange letters...
...were released. Retired Major General Raymond Hufft, a much-decorated Louisianan, said that at the time he led his battalion across the Rhine in World War II he gave orders to shoot anything that moved. "If Germany had won," he said, "I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of the krauts." In Anchorage, Alaska, Glen Roberts turned in to the local Army recruiter the Bronze Star he had won in Viet...
...Nuremberg Standards...
...lesser loophole involves "superior orders," a legal defense that 19th century military disciplinarians strengthened by insisting that superiors were never wrong. Two world wars weakened it. The Nuremberg Trial of Nazi leaders after World War II revived an ancient tenet of Western thought: a higher law sometimes requires men to give their primary allegiance to humanity rather than the state. Though 22 Nazi leaders pleaded "state orders," 19 were convicted and ten of these were hanged. About 10,000 lesser defendants were tried for war crimes throughout the world between 1945 and 1950. Nuremberg was aimed at top policymakers, upon...
...skeptics who criticized the ex post facto nature of those restrictions, Nuremberg mainly proved that losing a war had become a crime under international law. Few recalled that some Allied leaders had wanted no trials?just summary executions. Nuremberg also produced a new U.N.-approved rule of civilized behavior: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him." The U.S. Manual of Courts-Martial