Societies think they operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by...
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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.
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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
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 241
Timestamp in movie: 00h 54m 48s
Uploaded: 26 March, 2022
Genres: drama, romance
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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