REGARDING the court martial in Germany of British soldiers charged with ill-treating Iraqi prisoners. I find their defence statements rather chilling: "I was just doing what I was told."
This is what Adolf Eichmann said in his defence of the transportation of Jews to the death camps.
J ADAMS
Bloomsbury Close
Freshbrook, Swindon
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