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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    7 days ago

    It was the problem Auschwitz was designed to solve. There were big mental strains amongst the mobile death squads, particularly on the Eastern Front, basically making themselves completely insane and uncontrollable.

    The Death camps were refined to be as humane as possible… for the SS. So the killing involved user-friendly pellets of Zyklon-B being dropped down chutes or through holes in a wall of a gas-tight room. The SS could not see their victims, but could hear them, and no intervention was necessary. It took 20 minutes for the last to die.

    Then prisoners on work detail would be forced to clear out the bodies, remove glasses, jewellery, gold fillings, hair, and artificial limbs for later resale on the commercial market, then they would carry the bodies the short distance to the incinerators, and later would dispose of the ashes by burial, dumping in the river or scattered as fertiliser. The SS were supervising, but didn’t need to get too close. It allowed those who chose to do so to put some emotional distance between themselves and the slaughter.

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        Also look up the Sonderkommando. They were death camp prisoners tasked with emptying the gas chambers and cremating the victims to “save” the SS from having to do it. When it was their turn in the gas chamber, most of them were reported to be relieved, and there’s a story of a Sonderkommando team being warned by another prisoner that they’re headed to the gas chamber, and they essentially said “we know. We’re the Sonderkommando and this is a mercy for us.”

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        6 days ago

        They won’t have to, they are a lot better at dehumanizing genocide victims than the Nazis were. This guy is the minority, the rest will do it with a smile on their faces