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SS officers didn't really have a gun pointed to their heads. They could refuse. But it was the combination of the difficulty of saying no to authority and prob
by petra 9y ago
SS officers didn't really have a gun pointed to their heads. They could refuse.
But it was the combination of the difficulty of saying no to authority and probably peer pressure , together with the reasonable possibility they'll be sent to the front lines (not even as a punishment , but because that's what men did back than).
- Ntrails 9y agoAssume strangers. If it's a choice between him and me, I choose me. If it's a choice between those ten people and me, I probably choose me. If it's a choice between a n+1 people and me, I guess I've already done n, what's another one? Acknowledging that there is a difference between being sent away to war and certain death. That there's a difference between 1 more person and a hundred. I believe that far more people than we'd like to admit would just follow orders.
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoA poet (Polish?) once said that "one million and one is still one million" (IIRC he was talking about Stalin rulings and the number of victims, and that a single life does not weight much in such times, but I am not sure)
- BrandoElFollito 9y agoIt was actually Mrs Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize winner (although a reluctant one). The quote was "one thousand and one is still only one thousand" from a poem about a concentration camp (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szebnie_concentration_camp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szebnie_concentration_camp)