Attilas and Nazis doing their patriotic ‘duty’

Once again, faced with the trauma of that dreadful July, I find myself rereading these days the book published ten years ago by the colleague Anna Andreou, Rendezvous with the Generals — a devastating testimony to the hollow inner world of the man who murders fellow human beings indiscriminately and feels no remorse, no guilt, no sense that he has done anything wrong, because he was simply… “following orders”, honouring his patriotic “duty”.

As the author noted, referring to the interviews she...