In my teens I had a fascination with the Nazi regime and read alot about the horrors of war there. It was always fairly easy and accessible to get literature or other media.

Particularly there was a book called The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton, that dove into the medicalized nature of mass murder, after having big problems with soldiers in the Einsatzgruppen losing their minds from the horrors and unmitigated brutality they engaged in. Soldiers were committing suicide or drinking themselves to death to deal with the PTSD and trauma from the absolutely brutal nature of the killing. The book is a fantastic resource and desrcibes the entire program of shrouding the genocide with medicine, the social psychology of "killing as healing" the concept of the victims as a illness on the land that the doctors were treating, and personal interviews with survivors of the camps, guards, and doctors, one of whom amazingly avoided ever doing any "selections on the ramp".

I was truly baffled and intrigued at how it could possibly be that ordinary people in just a few years could be brainwashed into accepting these horrors and participating in them. How could a physician who takes the oath not to harm possibly accept the idea of killing as healing... it obviously was one of the most pivotal issues at Nuremberg as well. I think the only thing that prevented a stain on the entire medical profession was the fact that it was limited to just one country's medical personnel... even if those doctors were some of the best and most influential in the world.

Sorry to go so far afield, but I just have started reading Gulag Archipelago and I'm amazed that I never knew much of this beyond the death toll and time frame, had scarcely heard of any literature related to it until Jordan Peterson mentioned it a few years ago in a video I watched. It seems all but certain that the crimes of the far right regimes in our history book is fully emphasized while the far left is sheltered and supressed.

As you say 50 million and 50 years... the kulaks.... this is quite shocking that the other tragedies and genocides simply pale in comparison to the evil Marxism has wrought on our world. No doubt because those unholy puppeteers are still in places of extreme influence in power to this day, generations later. I am learning now so better late than never, but I do feel a bit duped.

On that note I will say thanks for your contributions and if you or anyone has recommended reading I'd love to know! Especially non fiction with a bent toward science, psychology and the like during the events.

Godspeed!