While you may have mostly agreed with my post, I don't think that the reason why the soldiers committed less atrocities before was due to technological limitations. After all, soldiers have been able to attack civilian settlements at little cost for a very long time - the vikings raided stuff for a long time before world war 1 - as long ago as the 790s, and they didn't have any technological advantages apart from their extreme manliness over the populations which they were raiding.
While perhaps it isn't necessarily true that it was the mind-breaking, I think it was a combination of perhaps that and fervent nationalism, which translated easily to a hatred of other cultures.
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