This is Wilhelm Keitel. Indicted at Nuremberg after WW II for Crimes against Humanity, among other charges, he was found guilty and hanged in 1946.
He was given access to lawyers, allowed to testify in court, evidence was heard before an international tribunal.
Keitel wrote in the summer of 1942, "evacuation of the Jews must be carried out thoroughly and its consequences endured, despite any trouble it may cause over the next three or four months."
Admitting that Adolf Hitler's orders to execute or "disappear" political prisoners were ILLEGAL, he nonetheless signed dozens of orders that sent countless men to their deaths.
Keitel was found guilty on all four counts: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Shouldn't two injured, drowning shipwrecked men who the Trump administration murdered in an extrajudicial execution on the high seas been given the same opportunity to defend themselves before a court of law as Keitel was given?
36-40, F
