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This guy isn't based in Nuremberg, by any chance?

It Heiko Mell from the VDI (Verband deutscher Ingenieure). And it's possible I completely got him wrong.

frobozz is likely referring to this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuremberg_defense in response to this: 'Nobody is blamed for following the "rules"'

Yeah well, that took me some time some time to get, I mean like in "I needed you comment to get it".

:-)