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Originally Posted by Archaea
I wonder if it doesn't just destroy them emotionally. In re-reading All Quiet on the Western Front, the author takes to pains to point out how soldiers must cut off their connection to emotionality. If that link is severed, they may not function well as people. Perhaps not. Just speculating.
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I really think that for a lot of them it does. I don't know how WW vets especially could not be traumatized, and many of them just flat out destroyed by what they had to go through. One of my great uncles assigned to clean up the German POW camps after the war. By all accounts he came home a wreck, and I think he did die relatively young, drunk himself into oblivion.