The answer: both.
Some evidence supports the bad-apples theory of atrocities.But ...
... in her 1963 essay on the Nuremberg trials, Hannah Arendt noted that psychiatric evaluations of Nazi mass murderers such as Adolf Eichmann suggested that they were "neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."
For much more, see Are War Crimes Caused by Bad Apples or Bad Barrels? by , October 4, 2010 at Scientific American.
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