The judges of Nuremberg believed that the Germans should have committed civil disobedience in the name of decency and humanity. This is little likely to have been their view if they had been judging their own countrymen and not their enemies . But I believe it is true of friend as well as foe.
Source:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 1: Return to England, 1969.
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