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I do think he has some responsibility. Saying he was 'just following orders' takes away from the fact that he presumably did very much believe in the Nazi cause. There's nothing unusual about that: large swathes of the German population did. It goes beyond psychological defects and deference to authority - this was an ideology that enamoured millions of people and that they were utterly convinced of. He was a cog in the machine and so I do understand the argument in favour of jailing him. I think he does as well really - he has accepted all through the trial that he bears a moral responsibility for being swept along in the Nazi vision. My qualms are more just about whether this is really in the public interest and whether it's not just some attempt to make up for those who played a much bigger part and yet escaped justice.

But, like Shaun, I won't lose sleep over it.