Question

How did Nazi leaders defend their actions at the Nuremburg Trials

By refusing to provide any details of the things they did

By giving confessions with the hope of to being freed

By claiming that they were just following orders

By stating that their actions were not against the law

Answer 1

C. By claiming that they were just following orders

Step-by-step explanation:

In a 1962 letter, as a last-ditch effort for clemency, Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann wrote that he and other low-level officers were "forced to serve as mere instruments," shifting the responsibility for the deaths of millions of Jews to his superiors. The "just following orders" defense, made famous in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, featured heavily in Eichmann's court hearings.