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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by excuses

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now we know we know the dog ate your homework and you were feeling sick and [Boy in bed with a thermometer in his mouth]

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your mom had a flat tire and you're abducted by aliens we've heard it all [Boy taken away by a UFO]

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take a look at this image right here yeah Kristallnacht

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all right well after the conclusion of world war ii and during the Nuremberg

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trials Nazis used which of the following phrases to excuse actions such as the [Question being written out]

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one shown in the image and your potential answers but when your

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mom took your iPad away is punishment for sneaking out of the house it was the [Mother taking an iPad away from her son]

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worst thing ever right well okay there was also what the Nazis did in World War

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two which actually was the worst thing ever the Nuremberg trials offered some [Soldiers on the battlefield]

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semblance of closure to what was one of the most devastating painful and horror [Nazi soldiers at the Nuremberg trials]

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to occur in the history of humanity so during this trial how did many of the

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participating Nazis justify their actions but while we're not about to

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argue with the sentiment war is hell especially in this context it's actually

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a phrase made famous by William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War [Picture of William Tecumseh Sherman]

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not World War two the end justifies the means was a phrase written by

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Machiavelli and put into practice by king louis xiv during his absolute rule

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of france it wasn't mentioned once during the Nuremberg trial maybe under [Judge calling out the Nazi solider]

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someone's breath but nothing allowed and actually there is no avoiding war is

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also a Machiavellian phrase if the man was no saint

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well this saying suggests that war is inevitable due to the nature of mankind [Two men fighting]

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or hopefully a bit more optimistic here at Shmoop war isn't necessarily

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inevitable unless there's only one muffin left in the breakroom and then [3 people start to fight over the muffin]

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all bets are off here's from up all right well the correct answer is C the

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Nazis employed the phrase that fell East bevelle or an order is an order to

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excuse their action during the Nuremberg trial explaining that if that's just

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following the orders they've I given you know regardless of morality well as [Answer C is ticked]

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crazy as it sounds future of social psychology experiments like the ones [Man sat in a chair wearing a strange helmet]

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performed by Stanley Milgram have shown that in different societies people do

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often follow through with orders from authority figures

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even if they know for certain that what they're being asked to do is morally [Man electrocuting a woman with a button]

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wrong but we know you'd never do anything violent or immoral right [The 3 people are bandaged up and 1 of them is eating the last muffin]

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