Well this thread is all over the place.

A good book about "victor's justice" is "Nuremberg, The Last Battle" by David Irving.

The general theme is that very few of the crimes prosecuted at Nuremberg wouldn't have also been easily and equally applied to the victors.

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One of the better discussions about the tension between the average soldier's political obligation vs their own morality is in Shakespeare's Henry V when King Henry disguises himself and talks to the common trooper about who is ultimately responsible for the death and destruction they're inflicting on everyone around them.

The Kenneth Branagh movie adaptation is excellent, but I can't find that clip.


Is the cause just? Should the average soldier even care? If it is not just, doesn't the sin lie upon the king's head, because it's the soldier's duty to follow the king?

This one is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Gh_Nfls20