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"I Smell and See Burned Bodies All the Time": Israeli Soldier Commits Suicide After Taking Part in Gaza Genocide and Lebanon War (qudsnen.co)

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Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A 24-year-old Israeli soldier living in occupied Safad, called Daniel Edri, set himself on fire yesterday. His burned body was found inside his car in a forest near Safad. Edri had served in both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon during his reserve duty.

The soldier’s mother said: “He told me he had seen horrors and said, ‘Mom, I constantly smell the burned bodies and see them everywhere.'”

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (10 children)

how horrendous is the IDF, that even those commiting it end up dead from the trauma of just witnessing it.

did the Auschwitz guards had this problem?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

In his death-row memoir, Rudolf Höss discussed the “many suicides” among the men of the Einsatzgruppen and those “who could no longer mentally endure wading in the bloodbath … [and] went mad.” He continued, “Most of the members of the Special Action Squads [i.e., Einsatzgruppen] drank a great deal to help get through this horrible work.”¹⁷

Likewise, SS colonel Paul Blobel, the commander of Sonderkommando 4a, who enjoyed his reputation as “‘an efficient killer of Jews’ as well as a ‘drunk and a monster,’” still attempted to place himself in the rôle of the victim by citing the “psychological trauma” of his experience, in which alcohol became a means for dealing with his participation in genocide.¹⁸

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There was […] a notable lack of guilt among the top [Axis] leaders, but fear of retribution may well have prompted their suicides.

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I have seen plausible claims that camp guards in particular were more suicidal, but I have no proof.

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