Well, a 5 percent rate of being sent to a concentration camp or combat unit isn’t exactly negligible, and a further 17 percent were threatened. So maybe it’s correct that these effects are “surprisingly mild”, but these stats are more justification for the “just following orders” explanation than I’d have imagined from the main text.
I assumed that there were a large number of unknown cases and that the unknown cases, on average, had less severe consequences. But I haven’t read the paper deeply enough to really know this.
Well, a 5 percent rate of being sent to a concentration camp or combat unit isn’t exactly negligible, and a further 17 percent were threatened. So maybe it’s correct that these effects are “surprisingly mild”, but these stats are more justification for the “just following orders” explanation than I’d have imagined from the main text.
I assumed that there were a large number of unknown cases and that the unknown cases, on average, had less severe consequences. But I haven’t read the paper deeply enough to really know this.