
Originally Posted by
AdrianII
Also, I think that in a closed, hierarchically structured environment with no moral checks on a person's behaviour, many people are capable of such cruelty. Remember The dirty dozen? Just a movie, but a darn good one. Those guys could have been in the SS instead of the U.S. Army, if it had not been for their place of birth and for the officer (the Lee Marvin character) who directed their vicious energy in the right direction. As it happened, they liberated a concentration camp. Some of them could have been on the opposite side...
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