• @yesman
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    941 month ago

    One of the reasons for creating the system of death camps was that Nazi soldiers and policemen tasked with murdering Jewish people and other undesirables had elevated rates of PTSD. Also, during the Cultural Revolution, the People’s liberation Army switched to a lower caliber sidearm because all the executions were giving them carpel tunnel.

    You don’t want to loose sight of humanity just because you’re committing atrocity.

    • Nougat
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      471 month ago

      I know that another driving force for the gas chambers was to preserve ammunition.

      The earliest versions of gas chambers were essentially “piping truck exhaust into a building.” They moved on from that in order to preserve metal (from the piping), fuel, and vehicles for other purposes.