“And you think that excuses you? That you were just following orders? My God, Johannes. You objected to nothing, you challenged nothing! Not even when your commander shouted over the phone that your own daughter was a monkey! Every Nazi order you obeyed furthered their cause. Don’t you see it? Every time you said nothing, you were saying you agreed with them. Every time you did nothing to stop the madness, you were pushing it forward!”
As difficult as it is, "I was just following orders" is no excuse. Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode "Death's Head Revisited." The fact that Johannes can't see it, or doesn't want to, or isn't ready to right now, is both infuriating and chilling.
