Hitler's Willing Executioners

agents to conceal these predators for ideological wellness. They were purely selected randomly to the unit. He mentions that the Jews were efficiently treated much more terrible than other victims of the Nazis. He traits this distinction less to Hitler's priorities and the Nazi’s government rules, but instead indeed to the lethal antisemitism of the "ordinary " Germans. In the meantime, he mentions that the policemen were savagely expelling or killing on the spot of the entire Jewish community…

hard topic to write on, because it would be insensitive to try to compare one Jewish experience to another. That’s why my goal is to try to gather the facts and answer the tough questions that are addressed in “Survival in Auschwitz”, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and The Holocaust?”, “Reading the Holocaust”, “The Hell of Treblinka”, and “Neighbors: The Destructions of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland”. Which asked if it truly was a Jewish experience or can this happen…

Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, began an experiment in July 1961 that would drastically alter society’s perception of obedience. Milgram formulated a test to comprehend how far people would perform when coerced into obeying an authoritative figure. The experiment involved subjects being tricked into believing they were electrically shocking another individual; physical and emotional harm to the subjects was followed, resulting from the extreme tension they encountered.…

Wherever one may go in this world they find obedience. The location or the culture of the area does not matter to the similarity of your findings, all will relate one way, and that is through the mindset of obedience. One will see obedience from pets to owners, parents to children, and even spouse to spouse with how they submit themselves to each other. The Author’s Stanley Milgram, Norimitsu Onishi, Martin Fackler, Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, and Lynn H. Nicholas will…

and Heydrich realized that they had created a strong enough organization to challenge and discredit the SA. Himmler and Heydrich began by trying to manipulate Goring and penetrate the SA's hold on Prussian police activities. Goring was extremely willing to support the SS's counter-SA activity since he had already questioned SA loyalty and believed he could gain political power if the SA was out of the picture. In addition, the SA's police activities were rivals to Goring's Gestapo which had been…

display any support to her claims; her statement would hold more validity if she would include more details and, possibly, examples of how the experiment and the Holocaust differ. Similarly, Parker refers to author Daniel Goldhagen who wrote Hitler’s Willing Executioners. In his book, Goldhagen discusses “how the crimes of the Holocaust were carried out by people obeying their own consciences, not blindly or fearfully obeying orders” (237). Parker also illustrates a theory as to why Milgram…

What caused the Holocaust? Germany after the Treaty of Versailles was in a weakened and vulnerable state, where they were progressively, but easily manipulated by propaganda to believe their restoration and survival depended on a pure German line, and any impurities present needed to be eradiated for they compromised the future of Germany. The state of mind that allowed for such actions to take place was in part due to the Treat of Versailles that aggravated the German nation. The World…

All throughout Jewish history, and even into the 21st century, Jews have been constantly fighting the battle against anti-Semitism. This has been a recurring hardship for Jews all around the world. The Nazi rise to power in Germany led to the prime example of anti-Semitism thus far, the development of the Final Solution. This was the plan to exterminate all of the Jewish people, and resulted in the death of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. More than 70 years after this…

“We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.” (Zimbardo 211) In 1971 in the basement of the phycology department of stanford…

Comparative Critique on Parker’s “Obedience” and Baumrind’s “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” “… The dependent, obedient attitude assumed by most subjects in the experimental setting is appropriate to that situation” states psychologist Diana Baumrind in her article “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” (Baumrind 90). Baumrind cites certain passages from Stanley Milgram’s abstract of his experiment. Baumrind first explains why she thinks the location of the…