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paleotn

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5. Didn't work for Germans.... Just following orders

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Nov 6, 2025, 12:25 PM

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Won’t work now. And if they think there won’t be repercussions, people thought that in Nov. 1940. 5 years later…Nuremberg Trials. A number of “order followers” were hung a year later. Just saying.

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