Ingrains / ingrained in the human 's mind that humans must have obedience towards authority which explains many Germans obedience towards the Nazi. The dictionary definition of authority is “A person or organization having power or control in …show more content…
Many take parts in this inhumane genocide by simply obeying blindly. The result of blind obedience, total eleven million deaths. During the Holocaust, the factors that contribute to people to blindly obey are that it is ingrain that everyone must have obedience towards authority, it fulfills psychological needs and fear of the result of not obeying authority. Ingrains / ingrained in the human 's mind that humans must have obedience towards authority which explains many Germans obedience towards the Nazi. The dictionary definition of authority is “A person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative” (Oxford Dictionaries). Humans interpret the word authority on someone or something was to relate to political or administrative staff or organization. It is lawful that people must obey political and administrative figure, or consequences would be followed. Many under Hitler 's authority were just obeying the law, not knowing how their actions gave to the inhumane genocide of the Holocaust. In Stanley Milgram 's book Obedience To Authority, He writes “The person that, with inner conviction, loathes stealing, killing, and assault may find himself performing these acts with relative ease when commanded by authority” (Milgram 2). Humans usually recognize the authority as morally right or legally based. Humans expect what they are being ordered to do is right, and not expect that their own authority would command such actions that are wrong. In the Holocaust, It was the law to turn over all Jews to the Nazi. People turning over Jews did not know the cruel condition the Jews were going to face. They were just blindly obeying, no knowing their actions contributed to one of the cruelest acts of dehumanizing and massacre of the human race. People will follow the instruction of authority