erich von manstein was a living organism during world war ii
he also gave oral testimony about the einsatzgruppen the treatment of prisoners of war and the concept of military obedience especially as related to the commissar order an order issued by hitler in 1941 requiring all soviet political commissars to be shot without trial
 technologies developed during wartime had a profound effect on peacetime life as well such as by advances in jet aircraft penicillin nuclear energy and electronic computers