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- Historical trauma professional#
In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah goes through one of these when she gets told about 9/11 (which she missed due to Time Travel).The 'baby Addison' episode on Moonlighting.
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In the backstory of The Broken Earth Trilogy, Alabaster is badly shaken by discovering the history of Syl Anagist and how it shows that history has always been full of people like him being oppressed and there is no escape. Historical trauma professional#
That said, since he wasn't a professional writer.
Rummel, was a historian and political scientist whose specialty was totalitarian dictatorships which killed millions of innocents, and so he, in his old age, wrote a hypothetical Wish-Fulfillment fantasy in which two time-travelers (transparently based on himself and his wife) manage to prevent them all and turn the whole world peaceful and democratic.
This trope is the whole reason that War and Democide Never Again and its sequels even exist. After being told what it meant by the hero, she became particularly distraught upon realizing that they actually had two of those suckers. In Jack Finney's Time and Again a character from the 1880s who traveled to the then-present saw "WWII" on a book spine and tried to pronounce it letter by letter. It's worth noting that Andalites are herbivorous, and developed interstellar travel before learning about the concept of war. Specifically, he wonders how the same race that's capable of such evil can have produced his friends. 
He's not totally traumatized by it, as he's well aware of human bastardy at this point, but it does shock and disgust him.
Animorphs: Ax having the Holocaust explained to him by Rachel. When he finally got around to seeing what this new-fangled Inquisition was, he ended up spending a good deal of time drinking to forget what he saw. He didn't, rather he just happened to be in the area when it started. In Good Omens, Crowley (a demon) received a commendation from Hell for starting the Spanish Inquisition. One of the law students lashes out at the professor about how they (their parents' generation) could have let The Holocaust happen and do nothing about it. In The Reader Michael and his fellow students can't remember the last war and the atrocities committed due to their young age. Planet of the Apes (1968) has Charlton Heston's immortal reaction to discovering that humanity annihilated itself in a nuclear war: "You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!". However, after the crew is successful, Mathesar thinks he was just kidding (though it may be that Mathesar simply learned to lie himself to protect his crew from finding all this out for themselves). Mathesar considers lying (and by extension acting) a huge betrayal, so Jason's admission is devastating. 
Their culture doesn't understand acting, nor did they even have a concept of lying or deceit before the Big Bad started attacking them. Galaxy Quest: When Jason tells Mathesar that they're actors while he's on the torture table, Mathesar is distraught.Leeloo's history lesson in The Fifth Element, after typing in 'war' and seeing a huge montage of images from World War One, World War II, The Vietnam War and so on.
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