>Ladies and gentlemen, how many times has your boss told you to do something you didn’t want to do?
>Show of hands don’t be shy…
>mm hmm. But let me guess you did it anyway.
>Maybe you had a kid to feed, a career to look after, an estate in Berlin to pay for… which one of us are immune to life’s pressures.
>It’s the same whether we’re a lowly soldat or the reichsmarschall.
>Can we really be blamed for everything our workplace does? The prosecution certainly thinks so.
>I mean get a load of all these charges, looking at them you’d think my client was the only Nazi east of the Rhine.
>Let’s see here, plundering works of art. Well, that’s a harsh way of saying he protected Europe’s treasures through a tumultuous period.
>The fact the prosecution’s using these works as evidence shows they’re all safe and sound. And they’re beautiful. What is that a Raphael, just look at that.
>Disappearances of political opponents. Well if every Nazi was so awful what’s the problem?
>Here’s a joke for you, What's the difference between a tick and a Nazi…
>Besides that, the whole thing was under the infamous Night and Fog decree.
>A fitting name because the details of those so-called disappearances are so nebulous and uncertain, you’d need leeway longer than the Gustav gun to attribute it to one man.
>Ill-treatment of prisoners of war. Ok ok, we’ve all seen the photos and they’re hard to look at. Those gaunt emaciated figures really stick with you.
>But I’ll tell you, lots of people went hungry, Germans included. Why? It was the allied blockade and they certainly didn’t make exceptions for prisoner rations.
>But I don’t see ol’ Admiral Dudley Pound on the stand, do I?
>Now here’s the big one folks. Murder of 6 million Jews…
>That’s unbelievable, who could do something like that? No, I mean really who could? I’m no professor but let’s do some math…
