The claim that a person committing atrocities is not accountable if he is following the orders of a superior authority has been made a number of times since then ​ — most notably by the Nazi war criminals before the International Tribunal at Nuremberg.
उसका बचाव, कि वह मात्र अपने स्वामी, ड्यूक ऑफ बर्गन्डी, के आदेशों का पालन कर रहा था, अस्वीकार कर दिया गया ।