Thread by @windcomecalling

people have been posting a lot about this article for the obvious reasons, but it's also deeply worrying for a specific reason: suicides like these are one of the core reasons the Nazis switched from guns to gas chambers

https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1848412003095724276

I have no sympathy or pity for anyone who makes a monster of themselves and then cries about it; that a mainstream news article tried to cast this behavior in a sympathetic light is so disgusting and so utterly disrespectful of human dignity that I can hardly put it into words

but even deeper than that, hearing that Israeli soldiers involved in the Gaza genocide are coming home and committing suicide sent a deep chill down my spine, because this trend echoes events in the Holocaust loudly enough that I think it's worth taking notice

should Israel decide to escalate their genocide, to fully industrialize it, they will have the full support of the Israeli populace. I can only imagine how disgusting this justification will be, given how much self-pity and self-victimization we've seen already

Himmler (may his name and memory be erased) was so concerned about the effect that conducting mass killings was having on his men, particularly those in the Einsatzgruppen, that he personally instituted a policy of rest and mental health care for SS members suffering from it

just goes to show that self-pitying "uwu won't you think of our poor mass murderers, all of this killing is affecting their nerves" has probably always been a thing

@robynsun_love precisely why this bothered them so much, given that they were already engaging in mass murder, we can only speculate. perhaps they saw themselves as "civilized" mass murderers, or as you suggested, perhaps their conscience weighed more heavily than they were willing to admit.

@robynsun_love not that it matters all that much, anyhow; most of them are long dead and many forgotten. may their ghosts no know rest.