Stubble wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 1:44 pm
Who were the not evil nazis at the Reinhardt camps?
It's well known that within any population there is a small minority that has psychopathic and sadistic tendancies. This is maybe what Nessie is referring to.
As Browning's Ordinary men study shows, you don't need these traits to carry out killings, normal people can do it, it's just more psychologically difficult.
There are reasons not to bring sadists into the fold from an organizational perspective when you have "normals" who are willing to do the job, see the Nazi prosecution of Taubner
https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Max_T%C3%A4ubner
Such behavior likely diminishes the efficiency of killing operations and has additional demoralizing effects on normals.
It's unclear exactly why so many from T4 worked at Reinhardt camps. W certain cases it's obvious. Commandants like Wirth and Eberl had experience conducting involuntary killing operations, and doing it discretely. There's the obvious connection of gassing, so even if staff didn't develop the technology themselves they knew people who did.
I would speculate that the biggest reason is that T4 personnel demonstrated ideological commitment to do something unpalatable and had proven themselves to be discreet enough.