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algoth1 • today at 3:48 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

"Ai did it" will go down as well as "I was following orders" did in the Nuremberg trials


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jacquesm • today at 3:51 PM

It may, but I wonder what trial that will be. Money is a pretty good insulator.

gambiting • today at 4:04 PM

That implies that there will be a side willing to prosecute this. You can't have Nuremberg trials when the side doing the crime is invested in never getting punished for it.

pessimizer • today at 5:00 PM

i.e. extremely well, seeing as very few Nazis (in the West) were punished, and of the few that were there were none in jail after around 1958, and West Germany was basically given back to them if they hadn't been imported into the US. Spain, where the WWII festivities began, didn't even have a change in government.