Zranienia i śmierć podczas działań wojsk jako przedmiot szkolenia psychologicznego w armii niemieckiej

Combat operations, even conducting tasks in peace missions is always connected with the threat of losing life or health. Death and injuries, and in the defence need, the necessity to kill are one of the basic combat determinants. In spite of this, soldiers’ psychological preparation to these extraordinary, in peacetime, events is seldom included into soldier’s training process. The article attempts to approximate this preparation general principles in a study published by the Centre of Bundeswehre Inner Command. The authors, relating to this publication, discuss the tasks and contents of the activity of this kind in the German army. They include such issues as: psychological conditions of soldiers’ behaviour in extreme situations, their possible mental reactions and superior’s behaviour informing about death. The authors provide some of the methodological and organisational suggestions which can be found in the publication mentioned above.