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How affected (mentally, emotionally etc) were the Germans who carried out and oversaw war crimes/atrocities during WW2?

Whether they were Einsatzgruppen, concentration camp guards, extermination camp functionaries or regular troops in Poland and the USSR, to what degree on average were they bothered by their actions?

Were the majority of German perpetrators in the Holocaust and other atrocities against Slavs, Poles, Roma etc simply not affected by the horrific and nightmarish deeds they committed/helped commit because of their ideological views which deemed their victims as subhuman so they wouldn't feel bad afterwards?

Or was it more of an even split between those who were bothered and those who could sleep soundly even after killing large amounts of people?
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