This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders https://en

This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders