"Paul Tibbets is the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In 1985, a journalist from The Columbus Dispatch, Mike Harden, interviewed him and, in light of the appalling consequences of that bomb, asked him, âWould you do it again today?â. âOf course,â he replied, 'I was brought up to obey orders. In my day, if you received an order from someone in authority, you obeyed." I don't understand why what was true for Paul Tibbets at that time should not also be true for Erich Priebke. Why did the Americans win the war and the Germans lose? [...] If Priebke had refused to obey Kappler, he would have been a hero. But he wasn't Salvo D'Acquisto, he wasn't a hero. He was a man with the intellectual and moral depth of a servant dressed in a soldier's uniform. And I would really like to see among those journalists, opinion makers and television presenters who today act so tough and âbeautiful soulsâ who, in 1944, would have dared to resist an order that came directly from Adolf Hitler."
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