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Elephant conscripted by the Imperial German Army to move logs, WW1, 1915 (lemmy.world)
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[–] Rolando 3 points 1 year ago

OK, so the German Empire probably had some law or policy in place for the requisitioning of civilian animals.

I am tempted to make a joke about the elephant being a collaborator if it had not been German. But according to wikipedia:

In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human animals lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act.