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“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience. Even the common soldier, serving in the ranks of his army, is not called upon to obey illegal orders.”
Hartley Shawcross, quoted in Michael R. Marrus, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945–45: A Documentary History (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1997), 88.
