• BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I’m way more concerned about the children being shot than the “psychological disorders and trauma” of the men shooting them.

  • jukmehrk@lemmy.org
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    8 days ago

    The transition in Nazi Germany from shooting to gassing happened partly because of the effect it has on the psyche of the perpetrators.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen

    “The historian Christian Ingrao notes an attempt was made to make the shootings a collective act without individual responsibility. Framing the shootings in this way was not psychologically sufficient for every perpetrator to feel absolved of guilt.”

    This isn’t the best evidence, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find, if wants to look more deeply into it.