"I Smell and See Burned Bodies All the Time": Israeli Soldier Commits Suicide After Taking Part in Gaza Genocide and Lebanon War - Quds News Network
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A 24-year-old Israeli soldier living in occupied Safad, called Daniel Edri, set himself on fire yesterday.

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.'”

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    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

    (Source.)

    Nevertheless,

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

    (Source.)

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