"Nuremberg 2.0 has the perfect catchphrase"; as is Trump's Alina Habba: "We are following executive orders."

Nuremberg 2.0 has the perfect catchphrase.

— John Fugelsang (@johnfugelsang.bsky.social) 2025-04-12T03:29:27.198Z

John Fugelsang

“Nuremberg 2.0 has the perfect catchphrase.”

Alina Habba: "We are following executive orders."

Alina Habba: "We are following executive orders."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-11T14:58:21.471Z

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https://www.wnyc.org/story/how-the-nazis-defense-of-just-following-orders-plays-out-in-the-mind/

How the Nazi’s defense of ‘just following orders’ plays out in the mind

Feb 20, 2016

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A handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who said he shouldn’t be held responsible for his actions because he and other low-level officers were following orders from their superiors. A new study released Thursday offers one reason why people can be easily coerced into carrying out heinous orders. Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuter


In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were “forced to serve as mere instruments,” shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The “just following orders” defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann’s court hearings.

But that same year Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, conducted a series of famous experiments that tested whether “ordinary” folks would inflict harm on another person after following orders from an authoritative figure. Shockingly, the results suggested any human was capable of a heart of darkness.

[my own comment, read this now…damning, this is indeed MAGA Trump WHouse senior officials just like the Nazis’ just followed orders’ .]


Milgram’s research tackled whether a person could be coerced into behaving heinously, but new research released Thursday offers one explanation as to why.

“In particular, acting under orders caused participants to perceive a distance from outcomes that they themselves caused,” said study co-author Patrick Haggard, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, in an email.

In other words, people actually feel disconnected from their actions when they comply with orders, even though they’re the ones committing the act.

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https://www.jns.org/just-following-orders/

Just Following Orders