Who Was Goeth Who's To Blame

Even if Goeth was just following orders, he is still responsible for the Jewish deaths he caused, either directly by killing them himself, or indirectly by assisting in the transport of Jews to death camps. At any point in time, Goeth could have stopped being a perpetrator/collaborator and become an upstander for the Jewish cause. Instead, Goeth continued to persecute the Jews, and aided others in doing so. If he was responsible for following his orders, he should have been equally responsible for knowing when his orders had gone too far. When I am told to do something that is against what I think or believe, I will question and thoroughly examine my choices before making a decision. When Goeth was given orders, he blindly followed them without
Goeth also gave orders to kill to his own men as well, so he was not just following orders, he was giving them too. When a Jewish building expert alerted Goeth to the fact that the building they were creating was going to crumble because of the poorly made foundation, Goeth ordered his men to shoot and kill her before acting out her suggestion of rebuilding the structure. His men questioned his orders, but Goeth insisted that it was the proper course of action to take. Goeth also took aim at at any Jew he believed to be doing insufficient work, and promptly shot them down from the comfort of his balcony. It is hard, if not impossible to believe that Goeth was only following orders when he was in charge of his own camp, and constantly was giving orders to his men. These orders were often on the spot decisions, and were not checked by any authority figure, they were just issued by Goeth to his men. While Goeth may have believed what he was doing was the right thing at first, he should have been able to realize that murdering the Jews was a sinister task that he should do what he could to try to