Part II: "What would you have done?"

When Hanna asked the judge directly, "What would you have done", regarding her decision to sending old prisoners away to make room for new prisoners, it was a serious question that Hanna genuinely wanted an answer. Of course, logically, Hanna should have tried her best to save lives of the prisoners because that's the morally right thing to do. The witnesses at the trial may have been appalled at her for asking such a question, but we need to consider the circumstances that she was put in. I'm pretty sure she didn't voluntarily join the Red Guards to with the intent of watching people suffer and basically digging their graves in these concentration camps. At time we make decisions in which we weren't aware of the consequences in the first place. Therefore when the judge replied, "there are matters one simply cannot get drawn into, that one must distance oneself from", his words meant nothing. Hanna had already made the decision of putting herself into such a position, and she couldn't simply walk out of it or act against what she's been ordered to do. This contradiction of what you've been ordered to do versus what you're supposed to do (or a moral obligation) makes her situation something that cannot be rationalized. It isn't fair to place the whole guilt on her because she did not willingly accept such a responsibility, and her own life was at stake too. The numbness that is accompanied to those that are desensitized to the horrific WWII circumstance, also factors into the challenge on figuring what action should be done in that moment. 

Her actions in the past shapes who she is right now. When we're dealing with the past, there is no right or wrong answer because what has been done has already been done. There is no need for "what if...." or "maybe..." because the reality is it did not happen and we should all accept the past and move on. That also means that there is no use in asking the purpose of actions done in the past, because sometimes there was no reason, it was just something that had to be done and ultimately the decision that was chosen.