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- December 11: Organizational Cultures and the Conditions for Atrocity
- In Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Waitman Wade Beorn presents a clear account of the extent to which regular German army units participated in the Final Solution, laying bare in the process the organizational culture that permitted such atrocity. In the piece below, Beorn considers how his work on the German military should inform American attitudes toward rare but repugnant acts of atrocity by American military personnel. ----- Several isolated incidents of American military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan have recently shocked America (and the world). In 2010, a Marine Scout Sniper unit posed with their adopted unit flag, depicting …
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