Defense Strategies Rolfe Uses in the "Nuremburg Trials"

In the opening argument, Hans Rolfe, the defense attorney, states that, "A judge does not make the laws, he carries out the laws of his country." Throughout the trial, what strategies does he use to defend these laws in an attempt to discredit the prosecution's case? Hans Rolfe, the defense attorney, uses various strategies to defend the laws the judges on trial carried out in order to discredit the prosecution's case. First of all, in …

…judges on trial. Finally, he shifted the guilt of the judges to the world by stating that everyone was guilty of committing the same crimes, of standing by and allowing these atrocities to occur. Rolfe tried many tactics to make the judges appear not guilty by showing that they did not make the laws of the country, they only carried them out and that if they were to blame the whole world was also guilty.