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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
H. L. Mencken
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"And they must be followed even in the most dangerous of circumstances – precisely because the stakes are so high. That is not just what our conscience demands. That is what the law demands. Meir-Goring said it in her judgment: Resist. Only then can you say: I have not made myself guilty."
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"Meir-Goring’s words applied not just to Dey and his fellow SS men, but to everyone at the time, and to everyone today. Hard as they may be to follow, they must be followed."
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The author, Tobias Buck, adds:
"….to all of us, the trial of Bruno Dey ended with a message, and a warning: Don’t look away. Be compassionate. Resist the beginnings. Respect human dignity – at all costs."
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"Don’t obey orders that call for inhumanity, injustice, and murder. Respect human dignity – at all costs. And yes, even when that cost is your own safety. That is the message of this trial. Only then can you say: “I have not made myself guilty."
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"Be compassionate, and be mindful of your own indifference, your selfishness, your comfort of obedience, and your ability to live with injustice! Think for yourself and question what you are being asked to do.'
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"Resist the beginnings, when racism and injustice become acceptable in society. Don’t look away, but take note when people are robbed of their dignity."
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"It is rather – and this was shown also in this trial and especially in the personality of the defendant: resist the beginnings, when people are being degraded, excluded, humiliated and deprived of their rights."
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"Because it is only from the answers to these questions that we as humans can learn for the future. That is why the warning is not: do not allow another Nazi killing machine."
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"The decisive questions raised by this trial were: what crimes against humanity are humans capable of, and what brings people to commit cruelties like those at Stutthof concentration camp, or to take part in them? "
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Quoting the Chief Judge, Ann Meier-Goring, in the case Bruno Dey, a 93 year old German man accused, tried, and convicted in 2019 and 2020 for crimes committed at a German concentration camp while he, as 17 year old draftee SS soldier, passively stood guard in a watchtower in 1944 to 1945:
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Maybe I'm crazy but I think this kind of organizing in the first term - the women's march, the march for our lives, etc - led to Trump losing in 2020.