The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the...
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Professor Rohl:
Societies think They operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law. Professor Rohl:
8000 people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only 6 of murder. Professor Rohl:
The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time
Societies think They operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law. Professor Rohl:
8000 people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only 6 of murder. Professor Rohl:
The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time
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Societies think they operate by something called morality
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but they don't
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They operate by something called law
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You're not guilty of anything merely by working at Auschwitz
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Eight thousand people worked at Auschwitz
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Precisely 19 have been convicted and only six for murder
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To prove murder you have to prove intent
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That's the law
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Movie Summary
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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