Even though the defendants in the trials were Nazi leaders, many of them of them attempted to use the defense of following orders in order to prove themselves innocent. Germans defendants claimed that they were only doing what the Nazi officials told them to do and that they did not have any control over what was happening during the Holocaust (Scheffer). Some of them even denied knowing what was happening in the concentration camps (Stadtler,202). Wilhelm Keitol was a defendant in the Nuremberg Trials who tried to explain two concepts about growing up under Hitler’s influence. He explained that many Germans were educated to unquestionably obey a superior’s order, and that they feared to rebel even when they recognized that the acts were
