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I imagine Generals are very desensitized to huge amounts of casualties, but are there any historical accounts of Generals having mental breakdowns or worse after the sheer existential horror of the amount of deaths they're responsible for really sets in?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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