The ‘Dresden defense’ and its relevance today
by Hillel Neuer, via X:
UN officials say, “Yes, 1200 people were massacred by Hamas, but now thousands of Palestinians are killed.”
And you know, that argument was made before—in the Nuremberg trials, by the head of the Einsatzgruppen, the Nazi death squads that moved around Eastern Europe and killed a million Jews and a million others. When they were brought to justice at Nuremberg, they said, “Yes, we may have done these killings but you, the allies, you killed civilians when you bombed Dresden and other cities.” And that was wholly rejected by the Nuremberg court.
The notion that this Nazi defendant was trying to make—that the deliberate and purposeful killing of civilians was equal to the taking of civilian lives that is undesired, unintended and unavoidable—was absolutely rejected. Those are completely two different things. And that is the essence of civilization: to distinguish between those two.
And sadly, at the United Nations, we are seeing this scandalous Dresden defense being brought up again and again, to equate the purposeful, deliberate killing of civilians, which is a crime, with the taking of civilian lives that is undesired, unintended, but unavoidable. That should be rejected completely.
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