Battle it out

I'm doing a lot of reading on wars and battles lately. It started off with reading about Xerxes  I the Great and Persians in general and all the stories about the Battle of Salamis to prepare myself for all of the errors and mistakes and historical inaccuracies that I'm going to find in 300: Rise of an Empire because I'm an asshole like that.

After Battle of Salamis, I got hooked on reading about the wars and battles that the Greeks were involved in and then I devoured all over the Crusades' campaigns and then I moved on to the Byzantine Empire. After that, I went on to read about World War I and II while doing a bit of a reading about the Sino-Japanese wars. Right now, I'm reading about the Iran-Iraq War and (un)shockingly to me, the reason was not Sunni v Syiah.

Yes, I have a lot of time to waste.

I've always wondered what happened to the faith of the people involved in wars, especially POWs. Did it make them stronger, or did they just lose hope? I have a lot more questions, but I'm afraid of the backlash from people questioning that I'm losing my faith (seriously?). And then I came across this.

And then someone said that the phrase was likely to be carved by a Polish prisoner, so it could be a Roman Catholic, as the Nazis destroyed an entire civilization of the Polish Jews (about 3 million people). Mind you, not all of them were dead as some successfully escaped, but yes, the entire civilization was destroyed. And please bear in mind that the Nazis did not target the Jews only, as other minorities regardless of religions such as Romanis, Soviets, Polish, homosexuals, and people with physical disabilities were murdered too, although, admittedly, the majority of the victims were the Jews. So if you're one of the people who secretly cheers for or admires Hitler, please let me know so I can slap the shit out of you for admiring a mass murderer. Islam does not condone murder, you shithead.

Edit: Just read the above paragraph again and man, I sound like a condescending prick. I'm sorry if you think I am, because I'm truly not.

What I want to say is that, no matter what their religions are/were, I think it shouldn't surprise me that people lost their faiths in such a situation. I shouldn't even be surprised to know that some had stronger faiths than before when they were in similar situation. Don't know why I was surprised to find conflicting results though. I guess I just need a tangible result, which is weird, because faith is intangible.

Oh God I'm rambling nonsense.

Sooooo that's your history lesson for today. I'll stop now.

P/s: the more I read, the more I found out that the things I learned during my schooling years deviated from what other people from other countries perceived as the truth. I get that there are 2 sides of the story but  now, instead of gaining clarity, the more confused I become to be. It's frustrating.