.. and it was this quote you're showing that made me think of the parallels between the Freikorps soldiers and the Wagner mercenaries on the one hand and the Freikorps and the mutilating Russian soldiers in Bucha on the other. They enjoyed their "work";they don't need to be forced to such atrocities as the custom of dedovshchina ('grandfathering') in the Russian armed forces shows: they like doing it to themselves. This embrace of sadism, of the combination of magalomania and victimhood, doesn't seem to be covered by the usual analyses of fascism. My gut feeling is that Theweleit is very important today.