Eli5: Why would the condemned often be blindfolded before execution by firing squad?

Question

Was it to make the prisoner more docile or for the benefit of the firing sauad themselves?

(I know this is morbid, sorry. Research for a novel.)

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Answer 1

I read that one of the reasons the Nazis used gas chambers (Himmler’s idea) was so they did not to have to kill people and witness the deaths. Murdering humans themselves apparently really upset them and Himmler did not like this. On a side note, Fuck Himmler and fuck the nazis.