'I think we all deserve a pardon': Texas realtor who attended Capitol riots says she was 'following

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17. She needs a better lawyer. "Just following orders" will get you hung or shot.

"In his defense he maintained that he had not issued the order but had only passed it along to Colonel Almers from Field Marshal Kesselring, and that the execution of the OSS men was a lawful order. Dostler's plea of superior orders failed before the tribunal, which found that in ordering the mass execution he had acted on his own outside the Führer's orders."