Originally Posted by
Avtur
if you were ordered to carry out an execution of a "spy", as we also did in the 40s, would you have demanded all the evidence and "court" documents to peruse and review before deciding whether your order was legal or not?
If I remember correctly (I read a book on the subject a few months ago), these men were driven into the country, told they were stopping for a pee break, and then shot in the back of the head.
Most people might kind of think that was a bit out of the ordinary, and possibly not legal. The Nazis apparently did, since many of them appear to have found subordinates to do it for them on verbal orders, in the hope they wouldn't be blamed.